{"id":4551,"date":"2023-10-06T18:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4551"},"modified":"2023-10-06T18:22:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T16:22:38","slug":"the-5-bond-market-means-the-pain-will-be-felt-by-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/?p=4551","title":{"rendered":"The 5% bond market means the pain will be felt by everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"postie-post\">\n<div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The world&#8217;s largest bond markets are under pressure from a powerful selloff: bond yields hitting post-crisis highs worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Not so long ago, families, businesses and governments actually lived in a world of free money. The US Federal Reserve&#8217;s benchmark interest rate was zero, and central banks in Europe and Asia even used negative rates to stimulate economic growth in the wake of the financial crisis and pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Now those times seem to be over, and everything from housing to mergers and acquisitions is under threat.<\/p>\n<p>There is a growing sentiment that interest rates in major economies will remain high for a long time to contain inflation and the impact of this will be felt in everything from customers&#8217; pockets to companies&#8217; balance sheets.<\/p>\n<p>Bankruptcies are rising at the fastest rate since the pandemic, but companies are still taking on more debt.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, amid the market ructions, central bankers aren\u2019t showing signs that they are wavering and ready to rush in to save the day yet.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world&#8217;s largest bond markets are under pressure from a powerful selloff: bond yields hitting post-crisis highs worldwide. Not so long ago, families, businesses and governments actually lived in a world of free money. The US Federal Reserve&#8217;s benchmark interest rate was zero, and central banks in Europe and Asia even used negative rates to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4552,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dhcab.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}