Page 19 - Bond Market

Explainer: What does foreign access to China's $16 trn bond market mean?

China scrapped quotas for QFII and RQFII in June, to give qualified foreign institutions unlimited access to Chinese stocks and bonds

RBI gets more elbow room for bond purchases as banks return borrowed money

The Reserve Bank of India on Thursday said it would buy 100 billion rupees ($1.4 billion) of bonds from the secondary market on Sept. 24

Amid Centre-states GST row, a white-knuckle moment for bond markets

Centre-state GST equation to be keenly watched

Bond traders in India on edge again amid conflicting signals from RBI

The RBI also said it would inject one trillion rupees via 56-day repo operations while offering to take back longer duration one- and three-year cash

A gloom-and-doom scenario: Why Bond market loves India's tax mess

The Reserve Bank of India has told banks that if they buy another 3 trillion rupees ($41 billion) of government bonds, they can park them in a bin that doesn't have to be marked to market

High-yield contest in new phase as Indonesia-India spread jumps

Indonesia's 10-year bond yield climbed three basis points on Wednesday to 6.89%, after India's slid 18 basis points the previous day to 5.94%

RBI intent to check yields, bat for stronger rupee sparks bond market rally

Rupee closes at 72.87 a dollar, up 1.03% from previous close of 73.62. The 10-year bond yields shed 18 bps to close at 5.942 per cent from previous close of 6.117 per cent

GST compensation row: FM's 'act of God' can be a nightmare for RBI

The government has invoked "act of God" for not paying its due to the states directly

Severe shock to consumption, economy will take longer to recover: RBI

"Retrenchment in activity that is unprecedented in history," says the annual report released by the central bank

Stimulus to ease funding burden for India's weakest firms in Covid era

Yield premiums on 10-year rupee bonds ranked BBB have dropped about 80 basis points from an 11-year high in late March

RBI sends signal to traders that bond yields may head higher in debt sale

The Reserve Bank of India sold a 30-year bond on Friday at a cutoff yield of 6.7596 per cent, versus the 6.65 per cent estimated in a Bloomberg survey

'Bond market investors are likely to chase yields in the coming months'

The RBI may need to step in with larger purchases soon to keep yields from rising.This size of weekly auction can be absorbed in the market only if there is confidence on low yields, he says

India's bond market is so hot even Yoga guru Ramdev is selling debt

Borrowing costs on bonds have plunged after policy makers unveiled record stimulus to help combat the financial fallout of the pandemic

The importance of high-yield markets

Their role in fuelling the success of the US shale industry offers lessons for India's economy today

Are sovereign gold bonds a good idea?

Though SGBs were launched in November 2015, almost 35 per cent of the amount mobilised is in the current financial year

Liquidity measures help reduce financing cost in corporate bond mkt: RBI

Yields have dropped and the spreads have compressed despite foreign portfolio investment outflows of around $3 billion from corporate bonds in 2020, says article

Bond market warms up to NBFCs, but India's top-rated companies benefit

The liquidity situation for non-banking financial companies (NBFCs), which had been facing a crunch on this front for some time now, is improving.

In high-yield revival, global funds prefer Indonesia over India

The archipelago's debt is more attractive due to a superior fiscal outlook and the greater potential for currency strength

The liquidity tide

Dangers of global liquidity glut are the same as the last crisis

Despite Moody's rating downgrade, indicators point to rupee revival

Currency dealers say the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) intervened in the currency markets, and may have even bought some bonds anonymously from the secondary markets.