How Scary Is the Bond Market?

2. Corporate strategies for seizing market opportunities

In the bond market, since June, due to the influence of multiple factors such as fundamentals and investor sentiment, the bond market has taken on a trend of improvement.

Many homebuilders are near bankrupt, as are some hedge funds and other highly leveraged institutions. Even in the US corporate sector, defaults will rise, owing to sharply higher corporate bond spreads.

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11 The Asian Bond Market Initiative was endorsed at the ASEAN 3 Deputies Meeting held in Chiang Mai in December 2002. Its objective is to develop efficient bond markets in Asia.

It is recognized that there is an increase in the number of corporate governance accolades, awards, ratings, rankings and even corporate governance stock market indexes where constituents are selected on the basis of good practices in corporate governance.

The solution suggested by the Governor was to borrow about 400 million on the bond market to offset the deficit.

We see ever growing support for the proposal to develop an Asian bond market, which I put forth in 2001.

Meanwhile, the main transmission channels of monetary stimulus to the real economy the bond, credit, currency, and stock markets remain weak, if not broken. Indeed, the bond market channel is unlikely to boost growth.

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In short, though central banks creation of macro liquidity may keep bond yields low and reduce volatility, it has also led to crowded trades (herding on market trends, exacerbated by HFTs) and more investment in illiquid bond funds, while tighter regulation means that market makers are missing in action.

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NEW YORK In the 1987 film Wall Street, the character Gordon Gekko famously declared, Greed is good. His creed became the ethos of a decade of corporate and financial sector excesses that ended in the late 1980 s collapse of the junk bond market and the Savings Loan crisis.

The Asian bond market and Asian bonds are thus mechanisms for financing for development that also promote greater regional economic stability.

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Any United Nations bond issue would be evaluated by market participants and potential investors by its credit rating, which is a formal evaluation of the creditworthiness of the bond issue by an independent credit rating agency.

It is true that extraordinarily low long term bond yields put us outside the range of historical experience. But so would a scenario in which a sudden bond market crash drags down prices of stocks and housing.

For example, the Republic of Korea has undertaken measures to encourage the issuance of bonds by SMEs.10 One objective of the Asian bond market initiative11 is to increase bond financing options for smaller companies in Asia.

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Issues that could be addressed in this connection concern further corporate involvement in overcoming information market failures with regard to investment and business opportunities in developing countries and corporate participation in risk mitigation schemes.

Surprisingly, the bond market still seems almost oblivious to this risk. But holders of US debt worldwide have every reason to be concerned.

Moreover, including a smaller number of Member States in the set aside mechanism would facilitate consideration of any United Nations bond offering by market participants and would probably prove easier and less costly for the bond trustee to administer.

After the government clamped down on that too, the liquidity was channeled toward stock exchanges once those crashed, it sloshed into the bond market. But the bond market is not large enough to absorb it all, so some has now returned to the stock exchanges, leading to a partial recovery in share prices, with the Shanghai index reaching 3,500.

For instance, the LCS Group (IT) has invested in the United Kingdom as part of its corporate expansion and market access strategy.

Microeconomic factors for investment site selection included the corporate tax structure, trade and customs regimes, the labour market situation and financial infrastructure.

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