Investment analysis for yield and duration-focused investors
News that the Dutch central bank has headed for the exit of the New York Federal Reserve with as much gold as it could carry has revived questions about the US dollar's reserve role.
Financial market coverage by the UBS CIO House View. Rising oil prices and Treasury yields are testing investor confidence, but equities have remained resilient.
With oil prices breaching $100 per barrel, investors spent the week assessing whether inflation, bond yields and interest rates might stay higher for longer.
Norway’s sovereign wealth fund proposes shifting roughly $80 billion from US Treasuries into agency mortgage-backed securities (MBS), adding weight to the case for MBS in reserve portfolios.
In August, long-end municipals underperformed taxable investment-grade fixed-income sectors.
The ECB is almost certain to repeat its earlier policy rate error and unnecessarily raise interest rates. There is unlikely to be any inflation or economic growth impact, but a further rate increas...
Financial market coverage by the UBS CIO House View. Higher bond yields and shifting rate expectations are reshaping the income landscape.
The housing market showed further signs of stabilisation in August, with buyer demand and agreed sales moving away from recent lows. However, both indicators remained negative, whilst interest rate...
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