We are adjusting downward our year-end targets for the 10-year US Treasury and Bund yields. Taking hold of two important changes to our central macroeconomic scenarios, we are adjusting downward our year-end target for the 10-year US Treasury yield from 3.0% to 2.8% and the Bund yield from 0.5% to 0.3%. The drivers behind this include lower inflation expectations, rising US-China trade tensions against a constant...
Read More »Core sovereign bond yields – update
We are adjusting downward our year-end targets for the 10-year US Treasury and Bund yields.Taking hold of two important changes to our central macroeconomic scenarios, we are adjusting downward our year-end target for the 10-year US Treasury yield from 3.0% to 2.8% and the Bund yield from 0.5% to 0.3%. The drivers behind this include lower inflation expectations, rising US-China trade tensions against a constant monetary policy backdrop.Four consecutive disappointing US inflation prints have...
Read More »Rise in Bund yield will be limited
With the faltering in euro area business sentiment since February, the Italy-led sell-off of risk assets at the end of May and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) dovish meeting in June, we are revising our year-end forecast for the German 10-year Bund yield from 0.9% to 0.6%, as we hinted we might do in a previous note. Euro area business cycle slowdown After a very strong end to 2017, euro area economic growth has...
Read More »Rise in Bund yield will be limited
A mixture of soft data, a change of government in Italy and a dovish ECB exit from quantitative easing mean we are revising downward our year-end forecast for the 10-year Bund yield.With the faltering in euro area business sentiment since February, the Italy-led sell-off of risk assets at the end of May and the European Central Bank’s (ECB) dovish meeting in June, we are revising our year-end forecast for the German 10-year Bund yield from 0.9% to 0.6%, as we hinted we might do in a previous...
Read More »The Global Burden
Bundesrepublik Deutscheland Finanzagentur GmbH (German Finance Agency) was created on September 19, 2000, in order to manage the German government’s short run liquidity needs. GFA took over the task after three separate agencies (Federal Ministry of Finance, Federal Securities Administration, and Deutsche Bundesbank) had previously shared responsibility for it. On September 17, 2014, almost exactly fourteen years...
Read More »Bund yield forecast reduced in response to heightened volatility
Macroview The German 10-year Bund yield should rise only slightly from its current negative level. Peripheral bond spreads over Bunds should remain volatile. The financial markets’ reaction to the UK's Brexit referendum, together with the change in our economic scenarios as a result of UK voters’ decision to leave the European Union, are leading us to change our forecast for euro area bonds, particularly our forecasts for the German 10-year Bund and for yield spreads over Bunds for...
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