Nerves stay frazzled into the weekend amid worries over a full-scale banking disaster. Regardless of the actions by central banks and different regulators to attempt to ringfence the issues that helped take down SVB, Signature Financial institution, and that weigh on First Republic and Credit score Suisse, investor confidence has been severely shaken, leaving the very fragile circumstances and everyone seems to be questioning; Is there one other banking shoe to drop? The pop in rates of interest that uncovered issues just isn’t going away. A flight to security is choosing up once more with yields falling and that’s prone to be at present’s commerce forward of the weekend. The two-year Treasury is 11 bps decrease at 4.048% versus a 4.24% excessive in a single day. The ten-year is down 13 bps to three.45%. Yields on European bonds are down sharply too with the German 10-year Bund 13 bps richer at 2.15%. Japanese Authorities Bonds (JGBs) closed 12 bps decrease at 0.0143%
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Stuart Cowell
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