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The article focuses on parsing the bond market's judgment of the British government. Topics include examines Britain five-year borrowing costs were higher than those of ltaly and Greece, two countries that have difficult relationships with their lenders and considered although the markets are now calmer, the country sovereign bonds, or still trade at much higher yields than they did before the self-inflicted blow.

In the article, the author discusses the economic changes due to factors like inflation and the reversal of ultra-easy monetary policies by central banks. Other topics include the decline in the number of negative-yielding corporate bonds, the drop in the real yields of long-dated government bonds in the euro zone, and the performance of high-yield corporate bonds in the U.S. and emerging-market corporate debt.

The article focuses on the U.S. Federal Reserve is busy in fighting inflation and three-year Treasury yield has risen by more than a percentage point, the biggest absolute change since yields collapsed in January 2008 during the global financial crisis. It mentions Fed will increase interest rates by another two percentage points this year, having already raised them by a quarter of a point on March 16, 2022. It also mentions monetary policy is pressing on neither the accelerator nor the brake.

The article focuses on negative-yielding debt in the global bond market. Topics covered include rate of government bonds that are now trading at negative yields, according to an index calculated by Bloomberg, role of the trade dispute between the U.S. and China in the declining yields of government bonds, how inflation contributes to negative yields and its impact on U.S. and European investors.

The article examines how the movement of the bond yield market may predict a recession. Topics discussed include the inverted yield curve for government bonds, factors influencing short-term and long-term interest rates, potential reasons for the predictive power of the yield curve and having a reliable signal of a potential recession in terms of the yield curve movement as a way for central banks to take preventive action.

The article discusses aspects of the negative returns for bonds with low interest rates in the U.S. It examines the influence of low inflation to the economic growth due to the backtrack of the bonds. It also stresses the gap between the treasury yields and the emerging-markets debt as well as the investment trusts and energy partnerships.

The article discusses the change in the relationship between equity and bond values as of 2016. Topics covered include the tendency for equities to have higher yield than government bonds in the late 1950s, the first valuation shift between bonds and equities, which started in the mid-1950s, being driven by a change in economic fundamentals and institutional investors' attitudes, and the need for investors to be cautious about using bond yields as a signal for buying equities.

The article presents an overview of the reasons why the yields are not increasing in the U.S. The topics discussed include the perspectives of bond investor Sreeni Prabhu on the effectiveness of the volatility of the stock market on the performance of fixed income, the effects of inflation on bondholders, and the strong demand for treasury securities.

The article discusses the concept of ultra-short bond funds which offer an opportunity to earn a better yield without incurring much more risk. It mentions the investment of Baird Ultra Short Bond Investor in short-term Treasury bonds and low-risk corporate bonds and mortgages. Charts are also offered of top-yielding money market accounts, top-yielding certificates of deposit and low-rate credit cards.