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The Franklin International Aggregate Bond ETF has a poor historical total return profile, with a negative 1.71% return since inception. The fund's hedged nature and exposure to low-yielding government...

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The Franklin International Aggregate Bond ETF invests based on the Bloomberg Global Aggregate ex-USD Index Hedged USD. The Vanguard Total International Bond ETF invests based on the Bloomberg Barclays...

After months of plummeting yields, 10-year government bonds experienced a sell-off in August. The yield on Finland's 10-year benchmark note saw the largest increase of 16.5 basis points, ending the mo...

The global bond market is less volatile and supplies bigger diversification benefits than the US bond market.

60% of all global yields are now less than 1.00% and 86% of all global yields are now less than 2.00% according to the Financial Times.

The enormous increase in public spending during the coronavirus crisis and the fall in output will lead to a global government debt figure close to 105 percent of GDP.

Jens Van 't Klooster is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and is also a member of the research group, A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt at the University of Amsterdam.

Among this week's highlights indicating emerging market focus on accessing long-term debt are a 30-year issue for the Emirate of Sharjah and plans by Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem to raise h...

Global trade volume collapsed by 16.8% YoY in April, making the V-shaped recovery in the real economic activity unrealistic. South Korea exports, which some pra