Tag Archives: FT Alphaville on Negative Rates

A question worth asking considering the rather large amount of them knocking about at the moment. According to JPM, the total universe of government bonds traded with a negative yield was $3.6tr last week or 16 per cent of the JPM Global Government Bond Index. It’s an answer in itself, really. Anyway, here’s a list of those willing/ forced to buy those negative yielding government bonds from JPM’s Niko...

This will be a mostly charted recap of where exactly in the rabbit hole of negative yielding corp bonds we are following last week’s knee-shaking sale of some brand new negative yielders by non-state owned Henkel and Sanofi. It was a first. It was exciting. From Morgan Stanley, with our emphasis: We estimate that a total of €467bln of EUR IG bonds now have sub-zero yields. Of this, €313bln of bonds are iBoxx...