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Japanese stock futures and Australian equities rose as investors speculated that so-called quantitative easing measures from central banks across the world will stimulate economic growth.
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Brandywine Global Investment Management’s fund manager Jack McIntyre is exiting the Canadian bond and currency markets because the loonie is overvalued and he sees better opportunities in Mexico.
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Shinzo Abe is set to become the best friend of investors in Treasuries as Japan’s prime minister buys U.S. government bonds to weaken the yen and boost his nation’s slowing economy.
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The risk of owning sovereign bonds has fallen to a two-year low, setting the stage for more gains by the riskiest government securities as the investors look to a healing world economy.
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Moody’s Investors Service said it may join Standard & Poor’s in downgrading the U.S.’s credit rating unless Congress next year reduces the percentage of debt- to-gross-domestic-product during budget negotiations.
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Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, which have outperformed conventional U.S. government debt every year since the financial crisis of 2008, are losing their appeal.
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The big winner in the battle over the U.S. government budget may be the bond market, as investors say for the first time since the onset of the financial crisis they see lawmaker resolve to trim the $1 trillion deficit.
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Even with all the concern about the so-called fiscal cliff, another confrontation over government borrowing limits and Chinese ownership of U.S. debt, foreign investors can’t get enough Treasuries.
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Foreign bank deposits at the Federal Reserve have more than doubled to $715 billion from $350 billion since the end of 2010 amid Europe’s debt turmoil, buttressing the dollar’s status as the world’s reserve currency.
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The highest inflation-adjusted yields in the world’s most-developed bond markets are appeasing investors waiting for President Barack Obama to begin reducing the more than $1.2 trillion U.S. budget deficit.
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