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  • Saturday, 4 January, 2020
    AnalysisEthical and responsible investment
    ‘Transition’ bonds bridge gap between green and brown

    Debt is tied to clear targets for carbon-heavy businesses to clean up their acts

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    Serious MoneyClaer Barrett
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    The past decade has been transformational for our finances, but the next could be more challenging 

  • Friday, 3 January, 2020
    Markets volatility
    US air strike sparks market pullback but not panic

    Stocks hit, while oil and gold rally, but investors reluctant to anticipate further escalation

  • Friday, 3 January, 2020
    The Top LineAndrew Edgecliffe-Johnson
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    Indulgent shareholders have blinded chiefs to how the world sees their pay 

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  • Thursday, 2 January, 2020
    Katie Martin
    Time for investors to rethink government bonds

    Persistent negative interest rates are undermining their safe haven role

  • Thursday, 2 January, 2020
    AnalysisFederal Reserve
    Can the Fed return the repo market to normal?

    US central bank averted a year-end cash crunch, but stepping back is now a challenge

  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2020
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    Festive cheer pushes eurozone bond yields higher

    Signs that Germany is contemplating higher borrowing have added to selling pressure

  • Wednesday, 1 January, 2020
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    Fed curbs repo volatility on final day of 2019

    Markets arm of central bank injects $255bn to ease possible cash crunch

  • Monday, 30 December, 2019
    Yield curve
    US yield curve signals optimism for 2020

    Indicator that once warned of recession now at its steepest in more than a year

  • Monday, 30 December, 2019
    AnalysisMarkets
    Aftershocks and fragility: 10 years in financial markets

    How the crisis of 2008 continued to reverberate through the following decade

  • Monday, 30 December, 2019
    Banks
    Europe banks issue record €100bn of ‘bail-in’ debt

    Bonds are designed to bolster balance sheets in event of future financial crisis

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    Bond ETFs gain traction in the great rotation to passive

    Fund assets balloon fuelled by low costs versus their actively managed counterparts

  • Sunday, 29 December, 2019
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    Warren Buffett on why companies cannot be moral arbiters

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  • Thursday, 26 December, 2019
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    By mid-2019, this once-unthinkable quirk of the bond market had exploded to extremes

  • Thursday, 26 December, 2019
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    Corporate defaults in China surge to a record high

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    How 2019’s mammoth bond rally buoyed entire eurozone

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  • Sunday, 22 December, 2019
    Sovereign bonds
    Bond wobble shrinks global pile of negative yields

    Late-December outbreak of optimism on global trade talks helps cool government bonds

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