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A key measure of the bond market’s expectations for inflation over the next five years — known as a break even — rose to a new high Friday, briefly topping 3 percent.

“A basic law of finance is if you don’t want to buy a bond, the seller has to lower its price to make it attractive to you,” said Moshe Lander, a senior lecturer in economics at Concordia ...

So while this isn’t a Liz Truss moment, the math certainly justifies the jitters in the bond market. US federal debt has more than tripled from $10 trillion in 2008 to over $36 trillion today.

The gap between the prices of regular and inflation-protected bonds as of Friday’s close imply that the Consumer Price Index is expected to rise 2.29 percent a year over the next five years, and ...

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Yields on China's government bonds are tanking, triggering worries that the world's second-biggest economy could be facing a multiyear economic downturn. The country's bond yields have plunged to ...