The US bond market: Getting ‘yippy’ again?

The offering was the government’s first auction of so-called coupon-bearing debt since Moody’s Ratings last Friday became the last of the three big credit assessors to strip the US of its top triple-A rating, following S&P Global Ratings in 2011 and Fitch Ratings in 2023.  Also Read: Vivek Kaul: The bond market called Trump’s bluff…

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Democracy could be the greatest casualty of Trump’s war

For all his grandstanding, barely three months since taking office, US President Donald Trump has virtually reversed his headline-grabbing tariffs, barring the de minimis 10% on all countries and 20-25% on steel, aluminium and automobiles. Item-specific tariffs on computers, smartphones and electronic peripherals from China have also been reversed for the moment, with a promise…

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