Sentences with phrase «pressure on the bond market»

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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.