These conditions gave rise to the yen carry trade. Japanese investors recycled the surpluses into higher-yielding assets overseas, making Japan the world’s largest creditor nation for many years. At ...

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The fund has returned 4.94 percent over the past year, 4.57 percent over the past three years, 1.23 percent over the past five years, and 1.25 percent over the past decade.

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Despite reassuring bond returns lately, troubles abound in what was once a sleepy haven for risk-averse investors. By Jeff Sommer Jeff Sommer writes Strategies, a weekly column on markets, finance and ...

A JavaScript library to calculate bond prices, accrued interest, and yield-to-maturity (YTM) for Government and Corporate bonds, supporting multiple coupon frequencies and day-count conventions.

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For years, Japan’s nearly $8 trillion government bond market was an oddity among global peers. Prices barely stirred, and yields were razor-thin—sometimes even negative, so investors were essentially ...

Though the stock market has held up, the yield on the 10-year T-note has been falling over the last couple days. Markets have been doing their best to digest all of this uncertainty over the looming ...