A “storm” swept through the US government bond market on Friday, sending a key measure of long-term borrowing costs to the highest level since last February.
Treasuries dropped in overnight trading after a large sale of long-dated bond futures in Asia, according to people familiar with the matter. Yields on the benchmark 10-year note, a key marker across global asset markets, jumped to 1.63 per cent, having traded around 1.53 per cent the day before.
Analysts said the scale of the move underscored how jittery the $21tn market had become against the backdrop of a more robust economic rebound. Treasuries are the biggest and deepest market in the world, something that typically insulates it from sharp rises and falls in prices.
Lagarde s attempt to stave off global bond contagion is going badly wrong
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12 March 2021 • 2:38pm
It was just a matter of time before Germany’s eurosceptic professors filed a fresh lawsuit against quantitative easing at the Verfassungsgericht, Europe’s most powerful and temperamental court.
A group of 16 economists and businessmen have finally pulled the trigger. They accuse the European Central Bank of “blatant monetary financing of states” in breach of Article 123 of the Lisbon Treaty and straying ever further into fiscal rescue missions, undermining the sacred contract agreed by the German nation when it gave up the Deutsche Mark.