Negative Rates Series: $11.7 trillion government debt trades in negative
Jun 30, 2016 05:34 am UTC| Commentary Central Banks
According to data released by Fitch rating agency on Wednesday, relentless purchases from the investors led to the expansion of negative yielding government bond universe by $1 trillion so far this month and by $1.3...
Negative Rates Series: Negative bond universe expands beyond $10 trillion
Jun 03, 2016 08:20 am UTC| Commentary
This universe just keep expanding as major central banks around the world, either go further negative in their key refinancing interest rates or expand their asset purchase program. Biggest rise came after Bank of Japan...
Moody's: Negative interest rates hurt some European CLOs, have little impact on US CLOs
May 11, 2016 23:23 pm UTC| Research & Analysis
Negative Euribor levels pose risks to European CLOs that do not have sufficient mitigants in place to deal with negative interest rates through asset- or liability-level interest rate floors, says Moodys Investors...
Apr 29, 2016 09:26 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
If the BoJ implements additional QQE, yens depreciation and risky asset avenues rally could be restrained or momentary, whichmay lead toa larger risk of the BoJ trailing buoyancy. Well, Abenomics has been...
Buy, rent, or do both: the perversion of negative gearing
Apr 25, 2016 23:07 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Other than renting, the most common way to get a roof over your head is to buy a home and live in it. Another way is to buy a home and rent it out, and then rent a similar home (buy, rent, rent). Thanks to the perverse...
Negative interest rates – are there any positives?
Mar 28, 2016 01:27 am UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks
Some say that economics is the dismal science and perhaps this is because many economic theories do not seem to work in practice. One contemporary example is negative interest rates, where instead of interest being added...
Czech National Bank’s dilemma about negative interest rates continues
Mar 18, 2016 14:03 pm UTC| Commentary Central Banks
Inflation trends in the CEE markets have been sliding further away from the central banks targets. The European Central Bank has already undertaken measures, while other CEE central banks are changing their policy in...
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