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France’s debt premium hits euro-crisis high amid strikes

France is paying the highest premium over Germany to borrow since the euro zone debt crisis. The government is also promising new money to calm weeks of protests, which adds to doubts about how long its finances can hold up.…

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Lagarde plays down ECB help, tells France to fix debt

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said on Wednesday that France has to solve its debt problems at home by tightening fiscal policy. Her remarks pushed back on market speculation that the ECB could soon step in to support French…

Bond markets steady after Treasury yields hit 2002 high

A global selloff in government bonds pushed the 10-year US Treasury yield as high as 5.34% on Thursday, its highest level since 2002. The move followed the benchmark's largest quarterly rise this century. Bond markets steadied on Friday, Oct. 2.…

G7 debt costs balloon as bond yields hit multi-decade highs

Long-term government bond yields across the Group of Seven nations have risen to their highest average levels since 2008, according to Fitch Ratings, adding billions of dollars in debt-servicing costs to already strained public finances and reshaping the investment landscape…

U.S. 30-year Treasury yield hits highest since 2007 amid global bond rout

Long-term borrowing costs across the world's largest economies surged to their highest levels in decades on Tuesday, August 18, as fading hopes for a U.S.-Iran peace deal pushed oil prices above $90 a barrel while a flood of AI-related corporate…

German, French bond yields hit worst levels in over 15 years

Germany's 10-year Bund yield rose to 3.21% on Monday, its highest since May 2011, while France's 10-year government bond yield climbed to 4.06%, a level not seen since June 2009. The moves are part of a broader global bond selloff…

China evacuates 1.8 million as Typhoon Bavi nears landfall

China evacuated more than 1.8 million people on Saturday as Typhoon Bavi churned toward the eastern coastal city of Wenzhou in Zhejiang province, one of the most powerful storms to threaten the country's densely populated eastern seaboard this year. The…