Market Views: How a Trump win impacts US and Asian bonds
The surprise election of Donald Trump caused a wave of widening, tightening and widening of 10-year Treasuries. Will his re-election be a boon for bonds? Four experts offer their views.
What could a re-elected Donald Trump mean for bond markets, in the US and Asia?
Days after Trump’s surprise victory in the 2016 US presidential election, 10-year Treasury yields rose above 2.5% over concerns his adminstration would increase fiscal spending. Yields then continued to widen to reach a peak of 3.25% in November 2018 before they started to fall to a record low of 0.318% in March this year.
However, yields have been on the rise once more since August, indicating a sh…
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