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Investors are giving one of last year’s most popular bond trades a second look as simmering geopolitical tensions and deficit worries trigger a fresh bout of weakness in long-dated debt. President Donald Trump’s confrontation with Europe over Greenland is renewing momentum in the so-called steepener strategy, which constitutes a bet on shorter-dated government debt outperforming long-dated peers. ...
Investors are giving one of last year’s most popular bond trades a second look as simmering geopolitical tensions and deficit worries trigger a fresh bout of weakness in long-dated debt. President Donald Trump’s confrontation with Europe over Greenland is renewing momentum in the so-called steepener strategy, which constitutes a bet on shorter-dated government debt outperforming long-dated peers. The gaps between two and 30-year yields in Germany and the US are around the widest since 2019 and 2021, respectively. In Japan, the equivalent gap is the biggest on record, according to data going back to 2006. Shorter-term yields, which are closely tied to changes in monetary policy, are dropping on the expectation that new tariffs would slow economic growth and boost the case for interest-rate cuts. At the same time, the prospect of increased defense spending and a renewed focus on government deficits, especially in Japan, is driving up yields on longer-dated bonds. “Yield steepening will be a global theme,” said John Taylor , head of European fixed income and director of global multi-sector at AllianceBernstein. The biggest moves of the week took place in Japan, where Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s election pitch to increase spending without saying how she would pay for it sent yields on 40-year bonds to the highest level on record. The securities rebounded on Wednesday, but some investors expect more pressure. “The adjustment on the rates side is not done yet,” said Lauren van Biljon , senior portfolio manager at Allspring Global Investments. “Interest rates in Japan should at least be 75 to 100 basis points higher. They’re probably that far behind the curve.” Read more: Trump’s Greenland Threat Is Stirring Europe’s Deepest Divisions Long-dated European bonds remained under pressure on Wednesday. Yields on German 30-year notes rose 3bps to 3.51%, while their two-year counterparts traded little changed at 2.07%. That comes as the US applies consistent pressure over Gre...
Powell To Attend As Supreme Court To Review Trump's Firing Of Fed Governor Lisa Cook The Supreme Court on Wednesday are expected to review the legality of President Donald Trump's firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook last August over allegations of mortgage fraud. Lisa Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, attends a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisi...
Powell To Attend As Supreme Court To Review Trump's Firing Of Fed Governor Lisa Cook The Supreme Court on Wednesday are expected to review the legality of President Donald Trump's firing of Fed Governor Lisa Cook last August over allegations of mortgage fraud. Lisa Cook, member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, attends a Federal Reserve Board open meeting discussing proposed revisions to the board's supplementary leverage ratio standards at the Federal Reserve Board building in Washington on June 25, 2025. Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images In a letter to Cook, Trump cited a provision of the Federal Reserve act of 1913 which allows a president to fire members "for cause." Cook challenged the firing, and after a lower court reinstated her, Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene. During today's oral arguments, the justices are expected to probe several legal issues - including whether the mortgage allegations constitute the sort of cause that allows firings under the Federal Reserve Act. Of note, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell is planning to attend - which US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent on Tuesday said would be a mistake. Powell's plan to attend the court's oral arguments is a potent symbol of the administration's ongoing clash with the Fed following U.S. Department of Justice threats to pursue a criminal investigation of him. Powell called the threat a "pretext" to pressure him over monetary policy. - Reuters "I actually think that's a mistake," Bessent told CNBC. " If you're trying not to politicize the Fed, for the Fed chair to be sitting there, trying to put his thumb on the scale, is a real mistake ." The Alleged Fraud Cook was slapped with a criminal referral on Aug. 15 by Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) chairman Bill Pulte, who alleged that Cook lied on one of her mortgage agreements - specifically representing it as her primary residence. As the Epoch Times notes further, ten days later Trump sent a letter to Cook informing h...
Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic have their sights set on enterprise customers this year as they race to win more revenue, users and market share. In separate interviews with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar highlighted enterprise as a key revenue driver for their businesses. Enterprise c...
Artificial intelligence startups OpenAI and Anthropic have their sights set on enterprise customers this year as they race to win more revenue, users and market share. In separate interviews with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on Wednesday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar highlighted enterprise as a key revenue driver for their businesses. Enterprise customers account for roughly 40% of OpenAI's business as of January, but Friar said she expects that figure to grow to closer to 50% by the end of the year. OpenAI announced in November that more than 1 million business customers around the world are using the company's technology. OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit AI lab in 2015, and its valuation has swelled to $500 billion since the launch of its ChatGPT chatbot in 2022. "We're an incredibly strong business today," Friar said Wednesday. "As we look forward, for us, it's eyes on the prize of, 'How do we add value to the consumer? How do we add value to enterprises? And how do we close this capability gap?' You're going to hear us talk about this over and over again." Read more CNBC tech news Tech stocks lead Wall Street sell-off as tensions over Greenland escalate Most of Instagram's ads ran on Reels in 2025, data shows OpenAI to focus on 'practical adoption' in 2026, says finance chief Sarah Friar Elon Musk's xAI faces tougher road building out data centers after EPA rule update Amodei said that while Anthropic offers consumer products, they are not the company's major focus. He attributed roughly 80% of Anthropic's business to enterprises and 20% to consumers, adding that the startup has embraced enterprises in part because they are a relatively predictable and stable source of income. "Since the beginning, Anthropic has thought in terms of safety and reliability of AI systems, and one of the things we realized is that that was very synergistic with working with enterprises as compared to consumers," Amodei said. As of ...
In a speech to Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney lays out the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics – where the large, main power, geopolitics – is submitted to no limits, no constraints. On the other hand, I would like to tell ...
In a speech to Davos, Canadian prime minister Mark Carney lays out the case for unity in the face of Donald Trump’s new world order Today I will talk about a rupture in the world order, the end of a pleasant fiction and the beginning of a harsh reality, where geopolitics – where the large, main power, geopolitics – is submitted to no limits, no constraints. On the other hand, I would like to tell you that the other countries, especially intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states. Continue reading...
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday some areas of Europe are no longer recognizable — and that the continent was "not heading in the right direction." Trump lauded what he described as economic growth "like no country has ever seen befo...
U.S. President Donald Trump attends the 56th annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, Switzerland, January 21, 2026. Denis Balibouse | Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday some areas of Europe are no longer recognizable — and that the continent was "not heading in the right direction." Trump lauded what he described as economic growth "like no country has ever seen before" in the U.S. during his highly-anticipated speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. "Friends come back from different places – I don't want to insult anybody – and say, I don't recognise it. And that's not in a positive way, that's in a very negative way," Trump said. "I love Europe and I want to see Europe go good, but it's not heading in the right direction." His speech comes after global leaders condemned his aggressive approach to seeking to annex Greenland, which he said he would seek "immediate" negotiations over. Market participants and many U.S. allies raised the alarm about his Greenland position, including at Davos. Trump, who has long advocated for making the Arctic island a part of the U.S., previously insisting there is "no going back" on acquiring it from Denmark. He threatened to impose a rising wave of tariffs on eight European countries if they continue to oppose his plans. The U.S. president's increasingly aggressive Greenland rhetoric has ratcheted up trans-Atlantic tensions, with French President Emmanuel Macron warning of a shift to "a world without rules" and decrying "bullies," without mentioning Trump by name. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney told Davos on Tuesday that the "old order is not coming back" and warned "nostalgia is not a strategy." Carney said the new order was "a system of intensifying great power rivalry where the most powerful pursue their interests using economic integration as coercion." This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates.
Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’ Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of the deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and dubbed the “Butcher of Hama” for suppressing an uprising in the 1980s, has died aged 88, two sources close to the family have said. On...
Known for role in brutal suppression in the 1980s, the former Defence Brigades head has died after a brief illness Assad family live in Russian luxury as Bashar ‘brushes up on ophthalmology’ Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of the deposed Syrian ruler Bashar al-Assad and dubbed the “Butcher of Hama” for suppressing an uprising in the 1980s, has died aged 88, two sources close to the family have said. Once a pillar of the Assad family’s dynastic rule, Rifaat “died after suffering from influenza for around a week”, one source who worked in Syria’s presidential palace for more than three decades told AFP on Wednesday. Continue reading...