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Oil fuels worldwide bond selloff

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Government bond yields surged across major economies this week, with U.S. 10-year yields reaching their highest since 2002 as oil-driven inflation fears and debt risks fueled a global selloff.

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Chart of the Day: States borrow at increasingly expensive rates, yields at multi-year highs

Yields on sovereign bonds of developed economies are at multi-year highs. The war in the Middle East is pushing up oil prices, fueling inflation, which in turn is forcing central banks to consider raising interest rates. Yields on ten-year U.S. Treasuries have risen above 5 percent—the highest in 24 years. Yields on ten-year Slovak bonds are around 4.5 percent. It is the Chart of the Day.

Chart of the Day: States borrow at increasingly expensive rates, yields at multi-year highs
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Financial Times
Investors seek refuge from bond rout in haven German debt

Bund yields have fallen this week even as US, French and other governments’ bonds have sold off sharply over inflation fears

Investors seek refuge from bond rout in haven German debt
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Kathimerini
Shock in the bond markets

The perfect storm is sweeping bond markets around the world — explosive rise in borrowing costs in Europe, the US, Japan. The surge in yields is under the microscope of the European Systemic Risk Board.

Shock in the bond markets
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Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Bond Sell-off: Interest-Rate Shock: Who Is Hardest Hit?

Government bond prices have fallen sharply, yields are rising: France is becoming a major problem for the euro area. But the United Kingdom must still pay higher interest rates, even though it is less indebted. There are reasons for that.

Bond Sell-off: Interest-Rate Shock: Who Is Hardest Hit?
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The Wall Street Journal
High Government Debt Is Adding Fuel to the Global Bond-Market Selloff

Oil prices are driving rates higher, but indebtedness is a key risk factor.

High Government Debt Is Adding Fuel to the Global Bond-Market Selloff
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Financial Times
Global bond market steadies after sharp sell-off

Heavy selling this week pushed 10-year US Treasury yields to their highest level since 2002

Global bond market steadies after sharp sell-off
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Handelsblatt
Morning Briefing Podcast: Spaceflight: Isar Aerospace's $100-billion plan

Yields on government bonds are rising across Western countries. But in hardly any country is the situation as strained as in the euro area’s second-largest economy. There are reasons.

Morning Briefing Podcast: Spaceflight: Isar Aerospace's $100-billion plan
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Handelsblatt
Morning Briefing: Is France becoming the most dangerous country in the eurozone?

Yields on government bonds are rising across Western countries. But in hardly any country is the situation as tense as in the eurozone's second-largest economy. There are reasons.

Morning Briefing: Is France becoming the most dangerous country in the eurozone?
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