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In 2017, China's Ministry of Finance revealed plans to sell US$2 billion worth of sovereign dollar bonds in Hong Kong, its first dollar bond offering since October 2004. [2] The technology and communications sector in China made up a significant share of the offshore U.S. dollar bond market. Tencent priced $5 billion of notes in January 2018. [3]
China's holdings of U.S. Treasury bonds are so huge that they constitute a financial "weapon of mass destruction." At least, that's how the story goes, which is why the prospect of Beijing dumping ...
The yield on China’s onshore 10-year government bond, which is a benchmark for a wide range of interest rates, touched 2.18% Monday, the lowest since 2002 when records began.
The department issued its report in July 2012, stating that "attempting to use U.S. Treasury securities as a coercive tool would have limited effect and likely would do more harm to China than to the United States.” [citation needed] An August 19, 2013 Congressional Research Service report said that the threat is not credible and the effect ...
A sovereign wealth fund (SWF) is a fund owned by a state (or a political subdivision of a federal state) composed of financial assets such as stocks, bonds, property or other financial instruments. Sovereign wealth funds are entities that manage the national savings for the purposes of investment.
The United States risks a bond market crisis of the kind that engulfed the United Kingdom 18 months ago, sending yields soaring and sparking a run on the pound, according to Congress’s ...
In 2017, China's Ministry of Finance revealed plans to sell US$2 billion worth of U.S. dollar sovereign bonds in Hong Kong, its first dollar bond offering since October 2004. [37] The technology and communications sector in China is a taking significant share of the offshore U.S. dollar bond market.
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