Bonds

European government bonds fell on investors’ bets that rising inflation could prompt the European Central Bank to weigh scaling back stimulus measures.

Sales of securities backed by bundles of risky corporate loans set a 10-year record in August, thanks to improving corporate earnings and technical factors.

Investors keep buying U.S. Treasury securities, defying predictions for a broad selloff that would send bond yields back to their March highs.

Prices are surging as comments by President Biden ignite tax-increase fears and local governments weather the Covid-19 pandemic better than expected.

Wall Street firms are again packaging and selling mortgages that the government-backed firms can’t or won’t back.

Demand for debut bond issues is coming from investors seeking better fixed-income returns amid ultralow interest rates and record savings.

The closely watched spread between five- and 30-year Treasury yields has hardly changed after falling sharply when the Federal Reserve shifted its message in June.

The government’s campaign to reduce debt in sectors such as real estate has put many developers in a tight spot, sending high-yield bond prices tumbling.

The cost of issuing bonds jumped for cruise operator Royal Caribbean this month as investors demanded more yield.

Policy moves in Beijing are hitting Chinese corporate bonds and rippling across global markets through the U.S. and European money managers who loaded up on the securities in recent years.

Yields are down to levels that few investors believed they would see at a time of strong growth and rising inflation.

Treasury yields rose Friday after Labor Department data showed the unemployment rate declined to its lowest level since the pandemic took hold.

German bund yields declined as investors bet on the European Central Bank continuing to buy bonds, and on growing economic divergence between Europe and the rest of the world—especially the U.S.

Yields on government bonds in the U.S. and Europe have dropped to record lows when adjusted for inflation, a sign of investors’ waning optimism about the global economic recovery.

The central bank said the U.S. economy had made progress toward its employment and inflation goal, indicating that it was getting closer to when it could start tapering bond purchases.

Investors are scooping up lower-rated debt, pushing yields closer to those of government bonds.

Demand for debt from companies like Victoria’s Secret shows how far investors have reached for yield, passing a new milestone.

A break in a rally for government bonds is sending yields higher on Friday after sharp declines earlier in the week.

The decline in yields suggests investors think it could take longer for the Fed to raise interest rates.

The yield on the 10-year note hit multimonth lows, highlighting concerns about the prospects for economic growth.