Stuart Thomson News
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U.K. government bonds climbed for a second day after Moody’s Investors Service cut Britain’s top rank, as investors downplayed the significance of the downgrade.
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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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U.K. gilts rose, with 10-year yields falling the most in four weeks, as speculation U.S. lawmakers will fail to agree on a way to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff spurred demand for safer assets.
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Stuart Thomson knew what to do last month as Spanish yields rose to records: Sell German bunds.
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Portuguese bond yields are rising as investors are busy putting cheap money from the European Central Bank to work elsewhere.
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It’s an election year and unemployment is high. Congress’s response? Give the Federal Reserve a break.
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When Stuart Thomson at Ignis Asset Management in Glasgow was waiting for the results of Portugal’s January bond auction, he didn’t know that government-picked bond dealers got the results early, giving them a head start in judging the sale’s success.
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Governments of the world’s leading economies have more than $7.6 trillion of debt maturing this year, with most facing a rise in borrowing costs.
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For the first time, the U.S. is at risk of defaulting, and derivatives show that it’s riskier to hold German bunds than Treasuries.
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European Union leaders are showing their resolve in keeping the euro region together, agreeing in an unannounced meeting on May 6 to review the terms of the 110 billion-euro ($158 billion) lifeline Greece received last year.
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