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Global bonds stabilize as investors await Fed minutes

Global government bond markets steadied on Wednesday after a punishing selloff earlier in the week drove 30-year U.S. Treasury yields to their highest level since 2007 and pushed 10-year yields near levels last seen in early 2025. Investors now turn…

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BlackRock warns US yen intervention raises geopolitical risk

BlackRock warned on Thursday that the U.S. decision to sell euros to support Japan's yen without notifying European policymakers is adding to geopolitical risks and diminishing the appeal of longer-maturity government bonds.

Weak Japan bond auction deepens fears after US-yen intervention

Washington and Tokyo's rare joint intervention to support the Japanese yen has thrust the world's largest government bond market into the spotlight, as investors weigh whether Japan — the biggest foreign holder of US Treasurys — will continue to finance…

Chinese gov’t bond futures begin trading in Hong Kong

Chinese government bond futures began trading in Hong Kong on Monday, giving international investors their first offshore tool to hedge exposure to the world's second-largest sovereign debt market and marking Beijing's third attempt to establish the product outside the mainland.

Japan 2-year bond yield hits 31-year high on BOJ rate hike expectations

Japan's two-year government bond yield rose to 1.5% on Thursday, a level not seen since 1995, as markets priced in the likelihood that the Bank of Japan will raise interest rates faster than previously expected. The move came one day…

Japan’s 10-year bond yield hits highest since 1996

Japan's 10-year government bond yield surged to its highest level in nearly 30 years on Thursday, as investors grow increasingly uneasy about the country's fiscal trajectory under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and brace for further interest rate increases from the…

Japan’s bond yields hit multidecade highs on fiscal fears

Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond yield climbed to around 2.675% on Monday, rising for a third consecutive session as investors grappled with mounting fiscal spending plans and the fallout from the Bank of Japan's recent rate hike to a 31-year…