Sentences with phrase «european bonds markets»

European bonds markets had a lot to take in last week.

LONDON, May 3 - At a time when the impending withdrawal of European Central Bank stimulus was expected to hurt southern European bond markets, so - called «peripheral» euro zone debt continues to outperform its higher - rated peers.

LONDON (Reuters)- At a time when the impending withdrawal of European Central Bank stimulus was expected to hurt southern European bond markets, so - called «peripheral» euro zone debt continues to outperform its higher - rated peers.

In 2015, government - owned stalwarts like China State Grid International Development Co. and China Construction Bank led a boomlet of diversification into European bond markets, raising $ 9 billion on the continent, compared with $ 80 billion in dollars.

European bond markets initially welcomed the deal made at the July summit, although the narrowing of spreads for peripheral bonds over German Bunds was relatively muted, perhaps signaling a measure of skepticism among investors about the ability of the eurozone to survive in the absence of a formal mechanism that ensures the sharing of liabilities among member states.

It's also interesting to examine the changing significance and dynamics of the European bond market in general, which has almost doubled in size since 2005 to more than $ 10 trillion today, including government, investment - grade corporate debt and high yield.

We think that's an important development for the diversification of the European bond markets, but also for investors who need to have that global reach to be able to understand all the names being issued in Europe.

Capital Markets Fixed Income US companies are rushing to borrow in European bond markets.

Plenty of risks that could emanate from the U.S but a blow up of the European bond market will have global market interest rate reverberations.

FRA: What about your thoughts, Peter you recently mentioned, Europe could be the epicentre of the next financial crisis coming out of the European bond market.

It may not necessarily be very aggressive tightening, but they are likely to begin to raise interest rates soon and that means — as I see it — the US bond market may give lower returns than the European bond market.

This is quite a different result than earlier this year, when European bond market bonds sold off in fear that a Fed rate hike would lead to a shift away from European government bond markets to the higher yields and high quality of the US government bond market.

Given the disparity, how should a U.S. investor think about the European bond market?

Following the surprise European Central Bank (ECB) announcement earlier in December, European bond markets experienced significant steepening.

This coupled with concerns that European bond markets are overvalued in light of the ECB's QE expectations, and whether deflation concerns are over-hyped, are giving the market mixed signals.

Not exact matches

Markets in Europe closed higher Thursday after the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that it plans to extend, but reduce, its bond - buying program.

Over the past few sessions, we've seen fairly consistent rises across European government bond markets and that's spilled over to the U.S.» said Anthony Valeri, senior vice president of fixed income research at LPL Financial.

That money, which is mostly held in short - term U.S. bonds and money market funds, was kept in Ireland for years, until an investigation by the European Union into whether the company failed to pay taxes caused it to move its holdings to Jersey, a small island off the coast of Normandy that rarely taxes corporations.

«Following the U.K. election, the relative risk investors saw in European bonds came back and as the situation in Greece develops, risks will hopefully unwind and as we move into a certain environment, we can expect bond markets to continue to normalize,» Thomas Buckingham, portfolio manager of the European Equity Group at JP Morgan Asset Management, told CNBC on Monday.

With most of these debts being held by Chinese entities, it's unlikely we'll see a banking crisis in the same way we could have seen if Greece or Spain went belly up, said Lau — many foreign banks hold European bonds — but we've seen markets panic on far less worrisome Chinese news in the past.

A softening in euro zone economic data and signs that inflationary pressures remain subdued, encouraging the European Central to hold off from raising interest rates until well into 2019, have supported bond markets in recent weeks.

The European Central Bank is all but certain to cut back on its bond - buying stimulus on Thursday, one of the biggest factors supporting the rally in global stock markets in recent months.

But more than anyone, Mr. Schäuble has come to embody the consensus that has helped shape European economic policy for years: that the path to sustained economic recovery for financially troubled countries is to slash spending, raise taxes when necessary and win back the trust of bond markets and other investors by displaying commitment to fiscal prudence — even if that process imposes deep economic pain as it plays out.

European Central Bank President, Mario Draghi, addressed the recent volatility in the bond market.

However, he acknowledged that the current state of sovereign bond markets was «not normal,» and «some sort of European solution» was necessary.

Many market participants are expecting the European Central Bank (ECB) to launch a full - scale quantitative easing (QE) program in the next few months, whereby it would enter the market and buy sovereign bonds in large quantities.

We prefer selected subordinated financial debt within European credit and favor high - quality U.S. credit and emerging market debt over government bonds, but credit valuations are elevated across the board.

A jump in sovereign yields could spark European credit market outflows, hurting richer investment grade bonds.

Amid the political mayhem, Greece's cost of borrowing ballooned, with the interest demanded by markets to buy Greek 10 - year bonds exceeding 31 percent - compared with 2 percent for European powerhouse Germany.

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The biggest beneficiaries of the CSPP may be smaller European companies that have traditionally been excluded from bond markets and have seen bank credit grow scarcer, Deloitte's Burgin says.

It seems that the ECB will utilize the European corporate bond market to meet its requirement and stay true to its CAPITAL KEY.

These fears drove losses in the market prices of bonds in Italy, Greece and other troubled European countries.

Greece returns to bond market after three - year hiatus Having recently secured another bailout tranche from European creditors, Greece returned to the bond markets with a $ 3 billion five - year offering, which was more than two times oversubscribed.

European government bonds have reacted quite favorably to the latest announcements, specifically in the peripheral markets: Italy and Spain in particular have done quite well.

The big takeaway for those seeking to buy into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.

Prior to September 2009, the BUND was the only bond future contract available to manage risk and speculate on the European debt markets.

Indeed, world currency markets have roared back to life lately after years of hibernation, with a handful of monetary policy surprises — including the European Central Bank (ECB)'s bigger - than - expected bond buying program and the Federal Reserve (Fed)'s delay in raising rates — leading to rising volatility, as the chart below shows.

This equally divided lazy portfolio limits the bond investments to 25 % percent of the entire portfolio with the remaining 75 % equally divided among a broad US stock market index fund, a European fund, and a U.S. index comprised of smaller companies.

«Gold ranks higher than all European sovereign debt markets, and trails only US Treasuries and Japanese government bonds.

The unit, the chief investment office (CIO), has been the biggest buyer of European mortgage - backed bonds and other complex debt securities such as collateralized loan obligations in all markets for more than three years... The unit made a deliberate move out of safer assets such as US Treasuries in 2009 in an effort to increase returns and diversify investments.»

And we have the ECB [European Central Bank], again, likely to tell us what their plans are and not for selling bonds back into the market, I think not at this stage for changing their interest rate policy, but again, slowing the rates of purchase of bonds.

Indeed, the supply of dollar bond issuance in this year's first quarter hit record levels, and those levels don't account for the increased use of «reverse Yankee issuance,» whereby U.S. corporations issue into European markets denominated in euros.

In the days since UK Prime Minister David Cameron confirmed the date of the referendum, markets have experienced some volatility focused on UK - specific assets; spreads for some UK issuers of euro - denominated bonds have widened considerably for no apparent reason, which suggests to us that a lot of Europeans are selling their UK exposure.

I'd be much more interested in how large JPM's mark - to - market losses are on the European mortgage - backed bonds than how much loss they've sustained on the hedge.

LONDON (AP)-- European stock markets dipped Thursday while the euro struck two - week highs against the dollar after the European Central Bank left its key interest rates unchanged and decided against extending the duration of its bond - buying stimulus...

This is in contrast to US and European markets, where corporate bond spreads to swaps have risen over the period.

For now, we are currently seeing the anticipated liquidity reduction harvest of wind in what are academically considered the riskiest of assets — emerging market equities and bonds, currencies, and commodities — as equities of developed countries such as the US, Japan and some European nations have continued to hold up.

To better understand green bond performance and valuations in the secondary market, Morgan Stanley analyzed 121 self - labeled U.S. and European bonds, focusing on corporate, and government or government - related benchmark - size securities (at least $ 500 million).

Outright Monetary Transactions are a bond - buying program announced in September 2012 in which the European Central Bank would offer to purchase eurozone countries» short - term bonds in the secondary market to bring down the market interest rates faced by countries subject to speculation that they might leave the euro.