Repo rates in Tokyo slumped to a record Thursday as fiscal year-end activity led to a shortage of Japanese government bonds for collateral.
The European Securities and Markets Authority said it is scrutinizing the market for credit default swaps after recent trading activity amplified turmoil for banking stocks.
Charles Schwab Corp.’s clients are pulling cash out of the firm’s low-interest-rate bank accounts at twice the rate that Morgan Stanley expected, prompting the firm’s analyst to yank his buy-equivalent rating on Schwab for the first time since he began covering the brokerage stock seven years ago.
For the past two decades, Credit Suisse Group AG dominated the business of arranging Swiss franc bond sales. Its sudden collapse presents an opportunity for the likes of Deutsche Bank AG and BNP Paribas SA in a market that saw $59 billion in deals last year.
The global currency market is vulnerable to a liquidity crunch later this year as financial conditions tighten and economic growth slows, Bank of America Corp. warned.
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda changed the course of global markets when he unleashed a $3.4 trillion firehose of Japanese cash on the investment world. Now Kazuo Ueda is likely to dismantle his legacy, setting the stage for a flow reversal that risks sending shockwaves through the global economy.
The easy-cash era is over and markets are feeling the pinch from the sharpest jump in interest rate in decades.
The derivatives industry body, the International Association of Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA), has backed Credit Default Swaps amid concerns about the role they have played in the recent bout of global banking turmoil.
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., facing almost $23 billion in costs from recent bank failures, is considering steering a larger-than-usual portion of that burden to the nation’s biggest banks, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell told Republican lawmakers that Congress should re-evaluate limits on the size of federally insured bank deposits, U.S. Representative Kevin Hern said on Wednesday.
Though the Fed and FDIC have stopped contagion from SVB for now, smaller banks could face pressure for years to come.
Blackrock Global Co-Head of Fixed Income ETFs Steve Laipply joins Yahoo Finance Live to discuss the bond market, investor sentiment, interest rate volatility, Fed policy, and the impact of stress in the global banking sector.
Global stocks are on course for a 4.9% quarterly gain. Japan's Nikkei, which is heading for a 6% quarterly gain, slipped 0.8% on Thursday. U.S. and European stock futures were broadly steady.
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