Not exact matches
NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies
on Monday as the U.S.
bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak
on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage
pressure.
Then «tapering» talk by the Federal Reserve caused U.S.
bond yields to shoot up and draw back the capital that had earlier flowed into the emerging
markets, putting more downward
pressure on financial
markets and currencies.
[T] he dramatic increase in leveraged
bond positions by both US hedge funds and mundane money managers set in motion self - reinforcing liquidations once uncertainty over emerging
markets including Turkey, Venezuela, Mexico, and Malaysia - all of which experienced sharp capital flow volatility - put
pressure on speculative positions.
Bloomberg reported Thursday that after Draghi's bold words about protecting the euro last week,
markets expect him to deliver some sort of drastic action to do so and to relieve
pressure on bond yields, which have climbed steadily higher for Spain and Italy.
Speaking of the Treasury, they've got to pretty massively increase the supply of
bonds to the
market to fund the deficits induced by the tax cut and spending bill, which puts downward
pressure on bond prices and upward
pressure on yields.
As
bond yields surged
on Friday, high - yielding segments of the equity
market such as utilities and REITs came under the most
pressure, which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rally.
With the larger decline in
markets, investors are pulling money out of mutual funds that hold the
bonds, depressing their prices and putting
pressure on the wider
bond market.
A second mitigant of underlying
pressures on trading costs is the growing use of electronic trading in
bond markets.
After President Trump got elected
on November 8, 2016, the US Treasury
bond market sold off aggressively due to investors» expectations that Trump would be good for growth and therefore cause inflationary
pressure.
Rather, the increase in spreads appears to reflect both tightness in the Commonwealth Government
bond market (where supply remains limited and demand by foreign investors appears to have increased) and upward
pressure on swap rates (one benchmark against which corporate
bonds are priced) as companies have sought to lock in fixed - rate borrowings due to expected increases in interest rates.
Equities could not stand the competition from
bonds, so the
market slumped from August to October, until the
pressure of dynamic hedging took over starting
on Friday the 16th, selling into a declining
market in order to maintain the hedges, and spilling over in a self - reinforcing way
on the 19th.
Pressure on the corporate
bond market from CDS - related selling did not abate until mid-November of 2002.
An interesting study of hurricanes and their impact
on the
bond market suggests that economic activity generated by the massive rebuilding effort following Irma and Harvey will likely put upward
pressure on long - term interest rates.
Vanguard's new international
bond funds will put significant downward
pressure on the US domiciled international
bond investment fund
market.
Also, Trump's $ 1 trillion infrastructure plan and tax cuts for the wealthy will be debt - financed, potentially putting
pressure on the Treasury
bond market.
The equity
markets are again under
pressure while yields
on Treasury
bonds have collapsed, reflecting that
market's growing concerns about the weak economic outlook.
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«Continuing
market concerns that the Federal Reserve may slow its
bond purchases amid a strengthening economy added upward
pressure on mortgage rates this week,» Freddie Mac chief economist Frank Nothaft said in a statement.
The negative influences of war and terrorism remain: upward
pressure on oil prices, declining affordability of terrorism insurance, and a wobbly equity and
bond market.