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Sovereign bonds

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Gilts
    Pension funds 💔 gilts

    For whom the bell tolls

  • Thursday, 10 July, 2025
    Dutch pension funds set to sell €125bn of government bonds

    Overhaul of Eurozone’s largest retirement sector is expected to put pressure on continent’s debt markets

    Terrace on Torensluis bridge
  • Monday, 7 July, 2025
    Fintech
    Investors pile into tokenised Treasury funds

    Stablecoin issuers and traders are attracted by yields on offer and potential use as collateral in some derivatives transactions

    Montage of the US Treasury building and the logo of the US Treasury department
  • Sunday, 6 July, 2025
    Markets
    Has Starmer placated gilt investors?

    Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

    Keir Starmer, centre, speaks to parliament while Rachel Reeves, right, cries in the Houses of Parliament in London, England on July 2 2025
  • Saturday, 5 July, 2025
    Wealth management
    How to diversify your portfolio in an uncertain 2025

    Wealth managers face tough decisions as Donald Trump’s unpredictability rattles the markets  

    Illustration of hands playing with a waterful ring toss game with investment icons inside such as coins, houses, gold and papers
  • Friday, 4 July, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Nervy markets put Reeves and Starmer on notice

    Investors are getting fed up of being used by governments around the world as a low-cost cash machine

    Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK economy
    Investor fright over Reeves’ tears shows fragility of UK finances

    Market fears that replacing chancellor would imperil fiscal rules

    Montage shows Rachel Reeves against a City of London skyline and a line of data
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    UK politics
    Markets rally after Starmer says Reeves to remain chancellor and backs fiscal rules

    Move partially reverses sell-off prompted by investor fears chancellor would be sacked after emotional PMQs appearance

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves (left), Prime Minister Sir Keir (right) and Health Secretary Wes Streeting (second left)
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Gilts
    BlackRock and Schroders bought gilts during market slump

    Big asset managers added to holdings in bet that sell-off sparked by doubts over Rachel Reeves’ future would be shortlived

    BlackRock logo
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    EU common budget
    Brussels to seek more joint debt in EU budget plan

    European Commission to propose mechanism to issue common bonds to fund member states in emergencies

    Three EU flags flying outside the European Commission building in Brussels, Belgium
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Leo Lewis
    Japan’s great unsticking has begun

    The end of the zero-interest era is unleashing competition in the banking sector and changes in saver and investor behaviour

    María Hergueta illustration of a woman with her arms up in wonder, looking at yen coins flying over her head
  • Thursday, 3 July, 2025
    Markets InsightSatyajit Das
    The trades that will shape a new financial crisis

    There are multiple vulnerabilities and faultlines that could be ruthlessly unpicked

    A trader puts his hand to his face while working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange in 2007
  • Wednesday, 2 July, 2025
    High yield bonds
    European junk bond sales hit record as investors cut US exposure

    June issuance of about €23bn comes as companies take advantage of lower borrowing costs

    Tourists arrive on the Carnival Spirit ship at the Cartagena de Indias Cruise Terminal, Colombia
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    Gilts
    Gilts rally as Bailey hints at reduction in BoE debt sales

    Central bank has come under pressure to slow quantitative tightening amid global bond sell-off

    BoE governor Andrew Bailey
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
    The fall in the dollar is not scary Premium content

    And the big, beautiful bill

    A montage of $100 bills
  • Tuesday, 1 July, 2025
    US Treasury bonds
    RIP the convenience yield of US Treasuries?

    An inconvenient truth

  • Saturday, 28 June, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    Time to give the euro a glow-up

    The drumbeat of support for Europe to make its move to challenge the dollar is growing

    A Euro coin set against a blue, glittery background
  • Friday, 27 June, 2025
    Bank of England
    BoE urged to curb bond sales investors say could ‘reignite’ sell-off

    ‘Quantitative tightening’ is driving up borrowing costs and piling pressure on public finances, according to fund managers

    The Bank of England on Threadneedle Street in London
  • Thursday, 26 June, 2025
    Fund management
    Fears over US debt load and inflation ignite exodus from long-term bonds

    Investors have exited funds at fastest rate since 2020 at height of Covid pandemic

    A floor-based market maker at the New York Stock Exchange
  • Tuesday, 24 June, 2025
    Emerging market investing
    Emerging markets defy investor gloom to outshine developed world

    Currencies, bonds and stocks rally as global fund managers diversify away from dollar assets

    Emerging markets currencies, Brazil, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey
  • Sunday, 22 June, 2025
    Pimco bets on long-term Japanese debt in ‘dislocated’ market

    Bond investing group buys as long-term borrowing costs soar to record highs

    Pimco headquarters in Newport Beach, California
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    US Treasury bonds
    Foreign Treasury holdings remain near record high despite tariff turmoil

    International investors’ stockpiles of US government debt fell slightly in April

    US Treasury building in Washington, DC
  • Wednesday, 18 June, 2025
    Mozambique
    Heirs to the tuna bond saga

    The Jarndyce v Jarndyce of Mozambican debt fraud

  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Eurozone economy
    Era of Bund scarcity is over, says German debt chief

    Finance agency board member points to major change in Eurozone’s core sovereign bond market

    A view shows the logo of the European Central Bank (ECB) outside its headquarters in Frankfurt
  • Tuesday, 17 June, 2025
    Bank of Japan
    BoJ to slow exit from bond market

    Yields on long-dated government bonds surged to record highs in May

    Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda
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