MicroStrategy’s Michael Saylor has recently shared his thoughts around bitcoin-backed bonds which have been gaining popularity after El Salvador announced that it would be launching the first one. Say...
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Debt Crisis Grips Russia’s Most-Loyal Ally as Dollar Bonds Dive
(Bloomberg) — With all the focus on the risk of default by Russia, an even more spectacular collapse has gone largely unnoticed right next door: There’s a bond crisis brewing in Belarus, which h...
Bonds Hint Recession As 50 Basis Point Fed Hike Bets Accelerate
U.S. Treasury bond yields were active again Monday, with benchmark 10-year notes breaching a key technical level that could triggered renewed bets on a near-term recession in the world’s biggest...
Recession fears tied to yields are overblown, Canaccord’s Tony Dwyer
Wall Street may be overestimating recession risks. While investors focus on an unnerving inversion between the five-year and 30-year Treasury Note yields, Canaccord Genuity’s Tony Dwyer is conce...
Currency Markets Could Blow Up and Send Money Into Crypto, Gold, Stocks and Bonds: Raoul Pal
Macro investment expert Raoul Pal is warning of an under-the-radar economic trend shift lurking within the foreign exchange markets. The former Goldman Sachs executive points to sudden strength in the...
Crypto Bonds Are Exciting, But Due Diligence Is Always Required
Getty getty Bitcoin bonds and volcano infrastructure make headlines, but due diligence is always necessary. When the news broke that the nation of El Salvador was set to issue a $1 billion sovereign b...
Dividend Stocks Don’t Yield Ballast for Your Portfolio. That’s Why You Need Bonds.
Text size Krittiraj Adchasai/Dreamstime.com While a growing number of investors are seizing on dividend stocks to build income streams, financial experts warn that stocks that pay high dividends can’t...
Here Are 3 Ways to Get Better Yields Than Bonds, With Some Measure of Safety
Despite the recent surge in bond yields, some alternative investments provide much better yields with varying degrees of safety. They include Treasury savings bonds, multi-year guaranteed annuities fr...
Why Global Bonds Market Decline Can Be A Good Sign For Crypto?
The Global bond markets have seen a continued decline since the U.S Federal Reserve hiked rates amid the rising inflation. The value of global bonds has dropped by $745 Billion this week causing a tot...
Has The Fed Heightened Geopolitical Risk?
WASHINGTON, DC – JULY 15: Federal Reserve Board Chairman Jerome Powell appears for testimony before … [+] the Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee July 15, 2021 in Washingt...
U.S. Treasury market plagued with illiquidity as government bonds suffer worst week in years
Signs of trouble continue to show up in the world’s largest, most liquid government-securities market as government bonds logged their worst week in years and the U.S. central bank’s interest rate hik...
EU starts testing blockchain technology for trading equities, bonds and funds
Blockchain technology is becoming increasingly popular and offers a secure alternative for many in the financial industry. This also applies to the issuance, trading and settlement of shares and bonds...
Bitcoin Bonds: El Salvador President Clarifies ‘Short Delay,’ Rails Against FUD
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele said on March 24 that the government delayed the issuance of what could be the world’s first bitcoin-backed bond in order to attend to a reform that has to be sent t...
Inverted Yield Curve Signals a Recession. A Different Curve Tells a More Upbeat Story.
Text size The Federal Reserve, led by Jerome Powell, raised interest rates for the first time since 2018 earlier this month. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images The most-watched yield curve is close to...
7 things investors need to know
Gary Gensler, chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission, at the SEC headquarters in Washington, on July 22, 2021. Melissa Lyttle/Bloomberg via Getty Images The Securities and Exchange Commiss...
Cover Bond Short Sales
Photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images Getty Images The March 21 posting advised a short sale on US notes. It was noted that the 25th was likely to be the low and that the price target was 123.6. The price ...
El Salvador postpones launch of Volcano bonds
The launch of “volcano bonds”, i.e. government bonds in Bitcoin, in El Salvador seems to have been postponed. The debut was expected between 15 and 20 March, but did not take place. New speculation is...
Demand for El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) Bonds Oversubscribed by $500,000,000: Report
El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) bonds are oversubscribed by around 50%, according to a Financial Times report. The Central American country announced in November of 2021 that it would issue Bitcoin bonds ...
Salvadoran Bitcoin Bonds Might Be Issued by State Geothermal Company La Geo, Delays Possible – Emerging Markets Bitcoin News
The treasury minister of El Salvador, Alejandro Zelaya, has informed about the future of the issuance of the bitcoin bonds and the possibility of these being issued by La Geo, the national geothermal ...
Crypto markets muted as El Salvador delays Bitcoin-backed bonds | Trading Ideas| OKX Academy
BTC and ETH are slightly down after consecutive green days. The total cryptocurrency market is down half a percent over the last 24 hours. Meanwhile, BTC and ETH are down around 2%. Of the limited maj...
El Salvador Delays the Issuance of Bitcoin Bonds
El Salvador will delay the issuance of bitcoin bonds initially scheduled for March 15-20, possibly until September, according to Reuters. Due to the recent war between Russia and Ukraine, the cryptocu...
El Salvador postpones Bitcoin bonds to September: Report
The government of El Salvador has reportedly decided to postpone the issue of a Bitcoin (BTC)-backed bond due to the unfavorable market conditions fueled by the geopolitical crisis. El Salvador’s “Vol...
El Salvador Postpones Issuance of Bitcoin Bonds While President Maintains They Will Undermine US$ Supremacy
Tobias Lewis El Salvador delays issuing Bitcoin-backed bonds, but the president maintains they will help undermine the US$ Nayib Bukele, the pro-crypto president of El Salvador, has tweeted that his B...
El Salvador Postpones the Issuance of Bitcoin Bonds Citing Unfavorable Market Conditions
Last week, El Salvador was scheduled to issue its $1 billion Bitcoin volcano bonds, however, things don’t seem to have materialized as per the timeline. As reported by Reuters, El Salvador Finance Min...
El Salvador seems to delay its ‘volcano bonds’ launch
Considering the absence of any official announcements, El Salvador’s government seems to have delayed the launch date of the so-called “volcano bonds.” Earlier, Salvadoran Finance Minister Alejandro Z...
Bonds Suffer One of Worst Days in a Decade as Fed Spurs Rethink
(Bloomberg) — The U.S. rates market was hammered anew on Monday, with a selloff driving yields on short-dated Treasuries to one of their biggest daily jumps of the past decade after Federal Rese...
Rollout of El Salvador’s Bitcoin Bonds Facing Legislative Delays: Report
The rollout of El Salvador’s Bitcoin (BTC) bonds is reportedly facing legislative delays that could hold back the issuance of the BTC-backed instrument. According to a new report by local publication ...
Gramercy Funds CIO on emerging markets investing amid the Russia war, including Ukrainian bonds
(Click here to subscribe to the Delivering Alpha newsletter.) Emerging markets, specifically those in Eastern Europe, have been whipsawed amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict. With sanctions in pl...
Gold at $10,000? Death of the 40-year bull market in bonds? What’s next for the global financial system after Russia’s central bank gets cancelled
The shockwaves are still being felt by the incredible Western sanctions that have rendered the $630 billion in reserves the Russian central bank accumulated virtually unusable. Can the current dollar-...
Sell Short US Notes Now
Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images Getty Images The 10-year US note is entering one of its most bearish periods in any year as we can see in the histogram below. Between March 17th and 27th, price has ...
Attempts to make Soon-to-be-released Bitcoin bonds in EL Salvador a success
The upcoming introduction of bitcoin bonds in El Salvador is mainly reliant on retail investors, but institutional distrust threatens the project’s success. According to a top bank official, 0.0...