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Fixed Income Focus - Central bank distortion

After amassing vast quantities of government bonds, central banks have now added corporate bonds to their monetary menu and credit investors are assessing the consequences

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Before we discuss the details, it’s important to take a step back and recognise the extreme world we live in. After many years of extraordinary monetary policy, an enormous quantity of government debt now sits on central bank balance sheets, with bonds worth trillions of dollars trading with a negative yield. But their recent decision to buy corporate bonds takes policy to another level – directly setting the cost of debt for companies.

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