Government Bonds

In a potential shift in China’s monetary policy, a resurfaced speech of Chinese President Xi Jinping has indicated that the People’s Bank of China (PBOC) may start trading government bonds to regulate liquidity. This move is reminiscent of strategies used by the U.S. Federal Reserve and...

SC Ventures, the innovation and fintech investment arm of Standard Chartered, has launched Libeara, a tokenization platform to make investment opportunities more accessible, transparent, and secure for a broader audience. Libeara, in a strategic partnership with FundBridge Capital Pte....

The recent surge in long-term bond yields in the U.S. is a reflection of the nation’s economic robustness, not the expanding fiscal deficit, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Yellen suggests the rise in yields — which has resulted in benchmark Treasury rates reaching...

August’s unpredictable market swings have led investors to seek solace in cash-equivalent ETFs, marking the most significant influx in recent months. Billions Flow into Ultra-Short Bond ETFs Investors have funneled a whopping $7 billion into ultra-short bond ETFs in August, as per Bloomberg...

By Lance Roberts  Government bonds or stocks? If you were picking an asset class to outperform over the next 18-24 months, which would you choose? Such was an interesting point made by Greg Feirman last week. To wit: “The market has now priced in a soft landing based on the idea that the...

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE) has entered into a strategic partnership with digital assets platform Fireblocks to offer a wide array of secure and innovative digital asset products and services, including institutional-grade crypto custody solutions. In a statement issued on Thursday,...

The Tel Aviv Stock Exchange and the Office of the Accountant General of the Israeli Ministry of Finance are working together to test a blockchain-based platform for trading digital bonds. The initiative will be backed by Israeli blockchain infrastructure firm Fireblocks and multicloud service...

During the go-go days of the Federal Reserve's various versions of quantitative easing, a slew of high-yield sector and asset classes became investor favorites. That includes multi-asset exchange-traded funds, such as the First Trust Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund (First Trust...