The Latest Breaking News from Bonds

With UK government bonds and sterling both falling hard in recent days, the Bank of England has been forced to step in. Only a few months after it started tightening monetary policy to fight inflation by raising benchmark interest rates and ending its programme to “create” money through quantitative easing…

The UK’s central bank unpacked a whopping £65 billion ($72 billion) on Wednesday in a desperate attempt to steer the economy back to stability.

Stock market investors loathe rising interest rates, but they have upsides — bonds are generating returns again and financial instruments like fixed annuities, with their returns tied to bonds, are up massively. How much? Lifetime fixed-income annuity payouts are up 29% to 30% from a year ago, depending on your…

It tracks a broad global sell-off, as recession fears mount in the US as its Federal Reserve fails to temper fears about more rate hikes.