bonds

MLT seems unphased by the Covid-19 pandemic: PhillipCapital

Tencent Music Entertainment Group has attracted more than US$10 billion ($13.67 billion) of orders for its dual-tranche debut dollar bond, beating expectations for investment-grade offerings in Asia’s offshore credit market.

Malaysia’s bonds have been the star performers in emerging Asia this quarter thanks to a succession of interest-rate cuts. Stubborn deflation and a shrinking economy mean there may be more to come.

SGX market activity down 23% from June, but 5% higher than a year ago as markets move towards a recovery.

The tea leaves of the world’s biggest bond market are producing a much-more foreboding reading than those of US stock prices.

Bondsupermart is a content aggregation website that is primarily focused on the Asian bond markets, and aims to become the information portal of choice for bond investors around the globe.

(Oct 29): China’s technology ambitions are at the epicentre of the nation’s trade dispute with the US. Not that you’d know it from the bond market.

(Oct 4): Stocks still look particularly attractive in a world of ultra-low bond yields, according to Southeast Asia’s largest bank DBS Group Holdings.

(Spet 11): China removed one more hurdle for foreign investment into its capital markets almost 20 years after it first allowed access.

(Aug 5): Interest rates around the world are heading lower as major central banks embarked on a fresh round of monetary easing. The US Federal Reserve cut its short-term policy rate, by 25 basis points as widely expected, for the first time since the end