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Moody’s to issue France rating verdict amid bond turmoil

Moody's is due to deliver its review of France's credit rating after US markets close on Friday, Oct. 23, at 2000 GMT, and most analysts expect it to cut the country's Aa3 rating, which has carried a negative outlook since…

Meta credit risk gauge hits record after $825B disclosure

The cost of insuring Meta Platforms' debt against default climbed to a record on Thursday, October 22, and its bonds weakened. The company had just disclosed that its future spending commitments, most of them tied to artificial intelligence infrastructure, had…

Bessent sees no spillover from French bond selloff

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Tuesday, October 20, that he does not expect France's bond market selloff to spread beyond its borders. He spoke as French borrowing costs held close to their highest level in 24 years after…

Hedge funds face scrutiny over Europe’s bond selloff

Investors and regulators are taking a closer look at hedge funds after this month's sharp selloff in European government bonds. A Reuters analysis published Oct. 16 argues that their growing presence is making a systemically important market more vulnerable. The…

Lescure says France needs no bailout amid bond turmoil

French borrowing costs are still close to their highest levels in more than two decades. At the same time, European and international officials are publicly rejecting talk of a new eurozone debt crisis. Their message to Paris is that it…

Bond sell-off prompts traders to cut rate-hike bets

The bond market is now doing part of the job central banks would otherwise do. Weeks of selling have pushed up borrowing costs worldwide, and traders have responded by cutting back their bets on further policy-rate increases. Swaps across eight…

Citi warns French fiscal risks could halt ECB hikes

Citi analysts say France's worsening public finances could lead the European Central Bank to stop raising interest rates after a December hike, or sooner if financial stress spreads to other heavily indebted euro zone countries. They also warn that the…

Pimco’s Ivascyn says 10-year Treasury yield could hit 6%

The benchmark 10-year US Treasury yield could climb to 6% for the first time since 2000, Pimco Chief Investment Officer Dan Ivascyn told the Financial Times. He pointed to high oil prices that are feeding inflation fears and to growing…

Fidelity manager avoids AI bonds as tech debt tops $180B

James Durance, a London-based portfolio manager at Fidelity International, is steering clear of the wave of technology bonds flooding the market to fund the artificial intelligence boom. Overseeing $14 billion in income strategies, Durance has kept tech exposure below 2%,…

Bond investors brace as food prices hit highest since 2022

After a year dominated by energy-driven turbulence, global bond investors are confronting a new threat: rising food prices. The UN FAO Food Price Index climbed to 133.3 points in August 2026, up 1.9% from July and its highest level since…

Goldman Sachs says global bond sell-off is fundamental, not technical

Government bond yields across the world's largest economies have climbed to multi-decade highs, driven by a convergence of swelling fiscal deficits, heavy corporate borrowing to fund artificial intelligence infrastructure, and an energy-price shock tied to the ongoing war in Iran.

BIS warns Big Tech’s AI debt binge shows ‘growing vulnerability’

The world's largest technology companies are borrowing at an unprecedented pace to fund their artificial intelligence ambitions, flooding global fixed-income markets with hundreds of billions of dollars in new corporate debt and intensifying competition with governments for investor capital.

JPMorgan to launch frontier bond index covering 26 nations

JPMorgan is set to launch its "GBI-EM Edge" frontier market local currency government bond index by the end of September, creating a new benchmark for nearly $330 billion of debt across 26 of the world's fastest-growing economies, according to a…

Global bond selloff pushes 10-year Treasury yield to brink of 5%

A sweeping global bond selloff drove U.S. 10-year Treasury yields to approximately 4.97% on Friday, their highest level since late 2023 and within reach of the psychologically critical 5% threshold, as surging oil prices and rising expectations of a Federal…

Oil surge and bond rout rattle emerging markets

A fresh round of U.S. military strikes against Iran sent oil prices surging and deepened a global bond selloff on Tuesday, rattling emerging-market assets caught between rising borrowing costs and a strengthening dollar.

Asian stocks plunge as global bond sell-off deepens

A sweeping sell-off in global bond markets combined with surging oil prices sent stocks tumbling across the world this week, with Wall Street posting its third straight day of losses on Tuesday and Asian markets extending the decline sharply on…

US debt hits $40T, driving borrowing costs to multiyear highs worldwide

The U.S. national debt breaching $40 trillion this week sent borrowing costs surging across the world's largest economies, raising fears of a broader credit crisis as governments from Washington to London compete for an increasingly scarce pool of global savings.

Oil settles at 4-week high as UAE suspends Iran trade

Crude oil prices settled at nearly four-week highs on Wednesday as escalating Middle East tensions — including the United Arab Emirates' suspension of all trade with Iran and continued uncertainty over shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — kept supply…

Dollar hits multi-month low after Treasury doubles bond buybacks

The U.S. dollar fell sharply on Wednesday after the Treasury Department surprised markets by at least doubling the maximum size of its long-dated bond buyback operations, a move that pushed yields lower and eroded the greenback's interest-rate advantage against major…

Tech giants’ AI borrowing binge drives yields higher

Oracle is emerging as the lightning rod for investor anxiety over Big Tech's debt-fueled artificial intelligence buildout, with the cost of insuring the company's bonds against default surging to record levels.

Goldman Sachs warns of ‘brutal’ moves in AI bond market

The largest technology companies in the world have collectively issued around $244 billion in bonds so far this year, creating what Goldman Sachs The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is calling a stress point for global credit markets even as stock…

Ex-BOJ official warns rate hikes could push past 2%

Former Bank of Japan official Tsutomu Watanabe warned on Wednesday that the BOJ may raise its benchmark interest rate rapidly later this year, potentially pushing it above 2% — a level well beyond what most economists currently expect.