Problems in sovereign debt and attendant pressures on banking system may decrease available funding and increase borrowing costs for Australian banks and companies.
The decision by the Reserve Bank of India came close on the heels of weak investor interest in two recent auctions that led to a
spike in sovereign debt yields.
The decision by the Reserve Bank of India, announced late on Friday, came close on the heels of weak investor interest in two recent auctions that led to a spike
in sovereign debt yields.
«If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a
meltdown in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.
In an interview with IMF advisor Robert Shapiro, the bailout expert has pretty much said what, once again, is on everyone's mind: «If they can not address [the financial crisis] in a credible way I believe within perhaps 2 to 3 weeks we will have a meltdown
in sovereign debt which will produce a meltdown across the European banking system.
«A lot of those initial issues, from what started with Greece
in the sovereign debt crisis and has spread to several other countries, have not been resolved,» says Peden.
There are several that hold high - yield bonds and emerging market debt, but I'm thinking of something more conservative, such as a fund that
invests in the sovereign debt of developed countries.
Manley contends the
explosion in sovereign debt caused by all the stimulus spending over the past two years is the biggest issue facing both the Canadian government and the world's other major economies.
Yields on U.S. government bonds are already some of the
highest in the sovereign debt markets and are attractive to non-U.S. buyers on an absolute and relative basis.
Because the situation is apparently inescapable due to fiscal pressure, one might argue the United States is
already in a sovereign debt spiral, one that will become visible only when short - term Treasury auctions start to fail.
Apart from the Irish case, on this side of the Atlantic the financial crisis has soon turned into a debt crisis, or, more precisely, into a banking crisis for some countries (e.g. Spain and Cyprus) and
in a sovereign debt crisis for others (e.g. Greece and Italy).
International bond funds can be divided into those that
invest in sovereign debt and those that invest in corporate debt and by developed vs. emerging market classification.
In sovereign debt and, to an even greater degree, corporate bond markets, liquidity hinges in large part on whether specialised dealers («market - makers») respond to temporary imbalances in supply and demand by stepping in as buyers (or sellers) against trades sought by other market participants.
First, there is a bubble building and it is
in sovereign debt.