The Economist (August 19)
“Bond markets are unnerving rich-world politicians. As stocks rise ever higher, yields have been climbing ominously.” Deutsche Bank analysts believe the U.S. Treasury’s latest move indicates “increasing administration unease” as the Treasury has announced plans to “increase its own purchases of longer-dated debt” from next month. “Bond markets are unsettled, and so, in turn, is America’s government.”
Tags: Analysts, Bond markets, Deutsche Bank, Government, Longer-dated debt, Ominously, Rich-world politicians, Stocks, Treasury, U.S., Unease, Unnerving, Unsettled, Yields
Reuters (February 15)
“Japan’s journey back to normality has just taken an unwelcome turn. The world’s third-largest economy in U.S. dollar terms ceded the title to Germany on Thursday” as Japan simultaneously slipped into a recession. “More unnerving is a slew of weak data making it harder for the Bank of Japan to justify hiking rates and officially ending its era of ultra-easy monetary policy.”
Tags: BOJ, Economy, Germany, Japan, Monetary policy, Normality, Rates, Recession, Third-largest, U.S., Unnerving, Uultra-easy, Weak data
