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Yields on dollar bonds from Chinese issuers have jumped this year, but investors don’t appear to be rising to the bait. A rethink of borrowers’ fundraising strategies should be on the cards. -
When celebrated investor Bill Gross said that 'bonds, like men, are in a bear market,' he was on to more than he might have realised.
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Papua New Guinea’s dollar bond sale last week was a landmark for the sovereign, which had toyed with the idea of an issuance for more than a decade. But while PNG deserves praise, its success does not reflect a victory for emerging markets.
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Everyone with something they don’t know how to sell hitches their cart to the much-abused horse known as blockchain. Now, the UK chancellor is talking the technology up as a potential solution for the Irish border.
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Elon Musk seems to have walked away relatively unscathed from his brief jostle with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Tesla’s board must now deal with the mammoth task of trying to control the impulsive chief executive.
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Italy’s latest political drama is making investors nervous, and rightly so — when the leader of a country’s main governing party accuses European leaders of market ‘terrorism’, in the vein of an ‘EU equals the USSR’ conspiracy theorist, then you’d be right to dump its bonds. But the steadiness of Spanish and Portuguese govvies through all this shows not only that the term ‘eurozone periphery’ may have to be consigned to the historical dustbin, but that the firewalls erected by those same European leaders after the last sovereign debt crisis are standing firm.
