How Debt, Inflation and Politics Are Driving Up Borrowing Costs
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Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000A prolonged period of elevated long-term bond yields is ramping up borrowing costs around the world. That’s because investors are demanding extra compensation for holding government debt in the face of entrenched budget deficits, sticky inflation and burgeoning questions around central bank independence. Expectations that a cycle of central bank rate cuts will end soon — and even give way to rate increases in some parts of the world — are also denting sentiment, pushing yields on longer-dated debt back to levels last seen in 2009.