Negative Rates Are Coming for Your Savings

(Bloomberg Opinion) — First they came for central banks, then they came for government bonds, then they came for rich depositors. Then they came for me.Negative interest rates are coming for us all, in one form or another, as central banks redouble their efforts to avert a global economic slowdown that
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Negative-Yield Debt in Japan Hasn’t Looked This Good Since 2008

(Bloomberg) — Japan’s negative-yielding bonds were a surprise beneficiary of the collapse in global rates in July.Foreign investors more than doubled purchases of the nation’s debt last month to 2.88 trillion yen ($27 billion) from 1.28 trillion yen in June, according to data from Japan Securities Dealers
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Kyle Bass says US interest rates will follow the rest of the world to zero — ‘This is insane’

U.S. interest rates will keep falling and follow global interest rates all the way down to zero, hedge fund manager Kyle Bass said.
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Negative-Yielding Debt Hits Record $16 Trillion on Curve Fright – Bloomberg

The recession alarm bell ringing in U.S. government bond markets sent investors rushing once more to haven assets, pushing the world’s stockpile of negative-yielding bonds to another record.
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Greenspan says ‘there is no barrier’ to negative yields in the US

Alan Greenspan said nothing is stopping the U.S. from getting sucked into the global trend of negative yielding debt, Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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