The global bond market has ushered in another historic moment. On September 1, the yield on 10-year Japanese bonds rose to 3% during the session, breaking through this critical psychological threshold for the first time since October 1996. This change not only meant a fundamental shift in the operating logic of the Japanese bond market, but also triggered a wave of global bond market sell-offs sweeping Europe, America and other places. Industry insiders said that this sharp sell-off coincided with another escalation of the situation in the Middle East. Brent crude oil futures prices returned above 91 US dollars per barrel, and concerns about inflation made a comeback. At the same time, the US government's debt has exceeded 40 trillion US dollars, the Japanese government plans to expand fiscal spending, and tech giants are financing AI infrastructure on a large scale. The combination of multiple factors is profoundly reshaping the pricing logic of the global bond market. A senior fixed income strategist at State Street Global Investments Management in Tokyo provided a key insight. “The 3% yield on 10-year Japanese bonds is certainly a milestone, but I prefer to see it as a normalization process rather than a sign of crisis. The market is repricing expectations for a higher inflationary environment, higher interest rates, and further interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan.” He further pointed out that what is really worth paying attention to is not the sudden return of large-scale capital, but rather that Japan is gradually “no longer a marginal buyer of overseas bonds.”
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The global bond market has ushered in another historic moment. On September 1, the yield on 10-year Japanese bonds rose to 3% during the session, breaking through this critical psychological threshold for the first time since October 1996. This change not only meant a fundamental shift in the operating logic of the Japanese bond market, but also triggered a wave of global bond market sell-offs sweeping Europe, America and other places. Industry insiders said that this sharp sell-off coincided with another escalation of the situation in the Middle East. Brent crude oil futures prices returned above 91 US dollars per barrel, and concerns about inflation made a comeback. At the same time, the US government's debt has exceeded 40 trillion US dollars, the Japanese government plans to expand fiscal spending, and tech giants are financing AI infrastructure on a large scale. The combination of multiple factors is profoundly reshaping the pricing logic of the global bond market. A senior fixed income strategist at State Street Global Investments Management in Tokyo provided a key insight. “The 3% yield on 10-year Japanese bonds is certainly a milestone, but I prefer to see it as a normalization process rather than a sign of crisis. The market is repricing expectations for a higher inflationary environment, higher interest rates, and further interest rate hikes by the Bank of Japan.” He further pointed out that what is really worth paying attention to is not the sudden return of large-scale capital, but rather that Japan is gradually “no longer a marginal buyer of overseas bonds.”
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