Record Amount of Negative-Yielding Debt Signaling Expansion of Global Slowdown

Record Amount of Negative-Yielding Debt Signaling Global Slowdown. The market value of negative yielding debt globally hit a record $12.5 trillion this past week. This was spurred by investor anxiety over clear signs of a weakening global economy.  This is indicative by persistently low inflation, China-US trade tensions and geopolitics, particularly in the Middle East. Why is this so worrisome? A rush into negative yielding bonds historically has occurred right before and during economic bad times. Recent signs of an expanding global slowdown have once again driven investors to rush into the safest assets available, such as government bonds, increasing the number of bonds with negative yields. In other words, in exchange for weathering what they see are economic bad times ahead,  investors are willing to buy bonds that will return less than they paid if they hold the bonds to maturity.

Record Amount of Negative-Yielding Debt Signaling Expansion of Global Slowdown
Record Amount of Negative-Yielding Debt Signaling Expansion of Global Slowdown

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