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  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    Lebanon’s bonds rally on bets that Iran’s influence could be weakened

    Defaulted debt jumps more than 25% as investors hope protests will reduce support for groups such as Hizbollah

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  • Thursday, 15 January, 2026
    UK retail industry
    Asda hit by debt sell-off after Christmas sales slump

    Traders offload retailer’s bonds and loans in a sign that confidence in the group’s turnaround is weakening

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  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    Gilts
    UK borrowing costs fall to lowest in more than a year

    Rate cut bets and easing tensions over government borrowing fuel gilts rally

  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    Sovereign bonds
    The $1.5tn Treasury basis trade boom

    The strategy now accounts for over 6% of the US government bond market, according to Morgan Stanley

  • Wednesday, 14 January, 2026
    ESG investing
    Nuclear weapons are now ESG compliant

    Boom times in EU sustainable finance

  • Tuesday, 13 January, 2026
    Sovereign bonds
    Repo is even bigger than we thought

    A taxonomy of the engorged and utterly systemic US repurchase market

  • Monday, 12 January, 2026
    Gold
    Gold hits record high and dollar weakens on Fed independence worries

    Long-term inflation expectations tick up after US prosecutors launch criminal investigation into chair Jay Powell

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  • Sunday, 11 January, 2026
    Corporate bonds
    US corporate bond sales hit $95bn in busiest week since Covid pandemic

    Companies in new year borrowing rush ahead of expected glut of issuance to fund AI-related spending

    Gold lettering spelling ‘Wall Street’ on a stone wall, with a person in a suit and tie holding a phone in the foreground.
  • Saturday, 10 January, 2026
    Personal Finance
    When it comes to bond funds, which is better: passive or active?

    With stocks, passive management is king — but bond funds do not work the same way

    Montage image of a woman using a laptop and holding a phone, with cash and a line chart in the background
  • Saturday, 10 January, 2026
    Sovereign bonds
    Can Venezuela settle its debts?

    Nicolás Maduro’s removal has opened the door to a huge and complex debt workout

    An oil refinery complex on Lake Maracaibo is overlaid with a financial chart and a faint US dollar bill background, all tinted red.
  • Friday, 9 January, 2026
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    Hedge funds battle over CDS of Coulson’s junk-rated Ardagh

    Contentious restructuring has led to rare public fight between holders of derivatives designed to protect against default

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  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2026
    Argentina
    Argentina taps foreign banks for $3bn loan ahead of debt repayment

    One-year repo agreement will also help Javier Milei’s government build vital dollar reserves

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  • Wednesday, 7 January, 2026
    Venezuela
    Hedge funds hunt for Venezuela’s unpaid financial claims

    US capture of Nicolás Maduro lifts hopes that country will make good on some debt

    The PDVSA logo and name appear in white on a red structure at a petrol station.
  • Tuesday, 6 January, 2026
    Sovereign debt
    A four-letter word that spells doom for Venezuela’s creditors

    Bondholders could get Bakerised

  • Monday, 5 January, 2026
    Sovereign bonds
    Hedge funds profit as Venezuela’s bonds surge

    Broad Reach, Winterbrook and Allianz among those making gains as debt jumps in price

    An oil pump jack and a large storage tank at a PDVSA facility in Lagunillas, Venezuela, are partially obscured by green foliage.
  • Monday, 5 January, 2026
    HM Treasury
    UK looks to promote short-term Treasury bills to retail investors

    Push by Treasury comes as government seeks to cut reliance on long-term debt issuance

    The stone exterior of HM Treasury is shown in focus, with blurred figures of people walking past the entrance
  • Monday, 5 January, 2026
    Sovereign bonds
    The pitfalls of sell-side research in the Trump era: Venezuela edition

    ‘ . . . with our change in view having been quickly overtaken by events . . .’

  • Monday, 5 January, 2026
    Markets InsightMichael Contopoulos
    The AI debt boom does not augur well for investors

    The surge in investment may end up looking more like previous cycles of over-optimism and heavy capital spending

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  • Friday, 2 January, 2026
    The Long ViewPhilip Coggan
    What a Soros theory can tell us about the AI boom

    So much of bubble activity is driven by feedback loops, dubbed reflexivity by the well-known investor

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  • Saturday, 27 December, 2025
    Sovereign bonds
    Italy and Spain shake off ‘periphery’ tag as borrowing premiums hit 16-year low

    Rome and Madrid rewarded by investors for cutting deficits, while France and Germany look to borrow more

  • Friday, 26 December, 2025
    The Long ViewKatie Martin
    So long, American exceptionalism

    For the first time, investors are talking about ‘US risk’

    A trader on the New York Stock Exchange floor looks up, surrounded by images and headlines of Donald Trump and a red "Trump 2024" cap.
  • Thursday, 25 December, 2025
    News in-depthMarkets
    Tariff turmoil, a gold rush and the sinking dollar — 2025 in charts

    FT reporters round up 2025’s biggest market stories

    A montage of Jensen Huang holding a computer chip, Kazuo Ueda carrying documents, a Wall Street sign, US dollar note, bitcoin symbol, and stock charts in the background
  • Wednesday, 24 December, 2025
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Tech groups shift $120bn of AI data centre debt off balance sheets

    Creative financing helps insulate Big Tech while binding Wall Street to a future boom or bust

    A montage of a Wall Street sign with the logos of AI companies in the foreground
  • Tuesday, 23 December, 2025
    Corporate bonds
    AI debt boom pushes US corporate bond sales close to record

    Investment-grade borrowers have issued $1.7tn of bonds this year, closing in on 2020’s Covid debt rush

    Aerial view of the Stargate AI data centre complex with multiple large, red-roofed buildings, surrounding infrastructure and construction vehicles.
  • Monday, 22 December, 2025
    Yen
    Japan official warns on yen’s ‘sudden’ weakness

    Traders see higher potential for government intervention to support currency

    Japanese 1,000 yen and 5,000 yen banknotes arranged in overlapping rows
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