As Foreign Investors Shun Italian Bonds, Domestic Retail Investors Increasingly Buying Public Debt – Sources

By Silvia Marchetti ROME (MaceNews) – Italian business lobbies and Democrat opposition forces voiced concern over foreign investors avoiding Italian bonds, though this is increasingly being counterbalanced by a rise in retail-only securities which is shielding Italy’s soaring public debt. “The Italian debt in the portfolio of foreign investors dropped from EUR 685 billion in […]

IMF: BOJ Should Consider Unwinding Monetary Easing Under Yield Curve Control Framework Now

IMF urges BOJ to consider ending yield curve control

–IMF: BOJ Then Should Gradually Raise Interest Rates–IMF Critical of Kishida Government’s ‘Untargeted’ Economic Stimulus Package By Max Sato (MaceNews) – The Bank of Japan should consider unwinding its large-scale monetary easing now by exiting the seven-year-old yield curve control framework, the International Monetary Fund said Friday, noting that easing in the past decade has […]

Italy’s Meloni Takes More Moderate Stance to Lure Bond Investors, Centrist Voters

By Silvia Marchetti ROME (MaceNews)- After more than a year in power, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is getting a ‘political makeover’ to take a more moderate stance and lure investors willing to support the country’s funding needs, say opposition forces. “She’s abandoning her neo-fascist rhetoric and revisiting her hard core, nationalist rightist policies in […]

BofA Global Research Fund Manager Survey:  Global Investors Choose Cash at Start of 2024

–Still Bullish Towards Growth and Bond Prices By Vicki Schmelzer NEW YORK (MaceNews) – Global investors reallocated into cash at the start of a new year, waiting for additional economic clarity before entering positions, according to BofA Global Research’s monthly fund manager survey, released Tuesday.   Inflation views were little changed in early 2024 but […]