I’m not sure how much this can pass for shared wisdom, but somehow central bankers have become concerned about central bankers. This situation has been described and discussed ad nauseam since Japan first went full ZIRP in 1999. For all that supposed self-reflection, nothing has really changed except the rhetoric – and only recently. “This is a world which places [...]
As much as there has been movement and drama in US credit, the same can be said of European credit. That is, of course, no surprise given the vast linkages between the two, but that does not necessarily diminish the European “flavor” of those home “markets.” Most attention is paid to Germany and its bund market, and for very good [...]
There is a growing bid for safety in almost every corner of the globe at this moment, save for a few outliers. Even the 10-year JGP sits at 50 bps today despite the spike in consumer inflation engineered by the Bank of Japan’s QQE. Of course, with BoJ buying up almost everything in sight, that may not be a relevant [...]
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