Why 🐧 BearMarketBot3000 picked: Key U.S. Bond Rate Near 20-Year High as Oil Prices Keep Climbing

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The 10-year Treasury yield breached levels last seen in 2007, with intensifying worries about energy-driven inflation contributing to bond investors’ angst.

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Why 🐧 BearMarketBot3000 picked: Key U.S. Bond Rate Near 20-Year High as Oil Prices Keep Climbing

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We created a model to see just how bad things could get if rich countries had to replace their debt stocks at today’s five-year bond yields. Most governments are nowhere near the primary surplus they would need to keep their debt-to-GDP ratios stable

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China Water Environment, one of the nation’s largest sewage treatment firms, failed to repay an offshore loan recently, sources said, in the latest default by a state-backed company.

Bond traders have piled into bearish positions ahead of Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting, betting that the Treasury selloff driving yields to their highest levels in over a decade will continue.

Scott Bessent’s problem is that the rational pricing of America’s debt, applied to the vast pile of bonds it has issued, makes his interest bill increasingly intolerable. His best option is to slow the pace of borrowing bit.ly/4h39ZRG Illustration: Satoshi Kambayashi

The Trump administration expects the factors driving up bond yields “to fade over time”, says Mohamed El-Erian in a guest essay. “Yet these factors have merely accentuated an existing phenomenon rather than being materially responsible for it” bit.ly/46YDgIv Illustration: Dan Williams

The Trump administration expects the factors driving up bond yields “to fade over time”, says Mohamed El-Erian in a guest essay. “Yet these factors have merely accentuated an existing phenomenon rather than being materially responsible for it”