Debt Market

* PM Abe vows to mobilise women in "Abenomics" growth plan * Three-year childcare leave proposal has hidden message * Public debt burden clouds funding for women, youth By Linda Sieg TOKYO, June 20 (Reuters) - Days after Kaoru Shimada and other...

* Key 10-yr yield up half percentage point from record low * Rise in long-term rates threatens recovery in economic activity * Conflict in BOJ logic of higher inflation, lower rates-analyst * BOJ needs to convince market yields will stay low-analyst By...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Abenomics' massive monetary stimulus was supposed to depress long-term interest rates to spur economic activity, but the Japanese government bond market has other ideas. Banks, unable to make money on their Japanese government bonds...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - India is emerging Asia's canary in the 'hot money' mine. As financial markets sell off on concerns over rising U.S. rates, what happens in India, an economy with slowing growth and a heavy dependence on foreign money, could well...

PARIS (Reuters) - The French should pay contributions for longer to get a full pension and well-off pensioners should pay more taxes, a much-awaited advisory report to President Francois Hollande's government said on Friday. Pension reform, a...

June 13 (Reuters) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Thursday revised the rating outlook on Detroit's senior and second-lien sewage revenue bonds to negative from stable due to concerns over debt service coverage levels. "The negative outlook...

By Axel Bugge LISBON, June 13 (Reuters) - The International Monetary Fund said on Thursday Portugal's economic outlook was "somber" and its public debt condition "very fragile" although Lisbon has met the latest targets in its 78 billion euro bailout....

ROME (Reuters) - A deeper-than-expected recession is hurting Italy's public finances but it can still keep the budget deficit below 3 percent of output without more fiscal tightening, Economy Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni said on Thursday. Saccomanni, a...

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Sweden's Handelsbanken will set a target for its key capital levels by the end of the year, the chief financial officer said on Wednesday, a move that could pave the way to return funds to shareholders. With a core tier one...

(Reuters) - As Detroit prepares to discuss with creditors how to avoid bankruptcy, Standard and Poor's Ratings Services on Wednesday lowered the city's rating by four notches to CCC minus. The downgrade from B, which affects both general obligation bonds...

LONDON (Reuters) - The $1 trillion market in emerging corporate bonds could be headed for a surge in defaults if company earnings in swiftly depreciating roubles or pesos fail to keep pace with dollar-based debt repayments. As the U.S. Federal Reserve...

The state-owned Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay resort in Cambridge continues to deplete a reserve fund to cover its semiannual debt payments because it is not making enough money. The state withdrew $2 million from the reserve June 1, cutting the fund's...