Japan Leads Global Long-Bond Drop as Spending Takes Center-Stage
The yield on Japan's 30-year notes jumped the most in two months and those on similar-maturity German bunds flirted with their loftiest levels in 14 years. For these countries fiscal concerns are usurping central-bank interest-rate policies as the main factor to watch. While the selloff is less pronounced in the US, 30-year yields there still touched the highest in a month.
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