SINGAPORE, Jan 20 (Reuters) - Japan's government bonds are in free fall as investors take a dim view of an atmosphere of competitive spending on the hustings, where politicians are jostling to cut ...
TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan's finance ministry is planning to request a record $220 billion for debt-servicing costs in next financial year's budget as the world's No. 4 economy faces rising interest rates ...
LONDON, June 7 (Reuters Breakingviews) - As interest rates rise, investors are once again fretting about the sustainability of government debt across the developed world. Attention naturally turns to ...
TOKYO, May 27 (Reuters) - The markets will be closely watching an auction of Japan's longest tenor bonds on Wednesday to see if debt investors will continue to put up with the worsening finances of ...
Japan could use a wake-up call over its mountain of debt through credit rating firms warning of the potential for cuts to sovereign bond ratings, according to a government advisor. “Recent fiscal ...
Peter St. Onge is a senior economist for The Heritage Foundation's Thomas A. Roe Institute for Economic Policy Studies Editor’s note: This is a lightly edited transcript of the accompanying video from ...
The jump in yields on Japan’s long-maturity bonds has gone too far, according to RBC BlueBay Asset Management, which has initiated a long position in the battered securities. A rout in Japanese ...
About the author: Desmond Lachman is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He was a deputy director in the International Monetary Fund’s Policy Development and Review Department and ...
A display shows long-term bond market interest rates in Tokyo on Nov. 18. (KAZUHIRO NOGI/AFP via Getty Images) Japan has an aging population, and the government has enormous transfer programs that ...
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