Lockdowns unlock bond market fears again, sending yields higher
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Apprehensions about the economic cost of lockdowns, especially the fear that governments may borrow more to compensate for lower tax revenues, sent yields higher.
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Mumbai: Local lockdowns have started hurting the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) weeks-long effort to keep government borrowing costs down. Apprehensions about the economic cost of lockdowns, especially the fear that governments may borrow more to compensate for lower tax revenues, sent yields higher.
However, Mint Road, the government of India’s (GoI) merchant banker, again tried to send a strong message to the local bond market on Friday by cancelling the benchmark paper auction for ₹14,000 crore. A devolvement on bond houses would have aided prevailing negative sentiment.