Debt Market

May 2 (Reuters) - U.S. regulators are considering requiring certain large, complex banks to maintain a minimum level of unsecured long-term debt to ensure that creditors bear any losses if a firm collapses, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing...

(Reuters) - In the past week we've had two object lessons in the madness of the bond market: Rwanda and Apple. Apple Inc, maker of the ubiquitous iPhone and iPad, on Tuesday sold $17 billion of bonds, the largest-ever corporate issue, at rates of...

TOKYO (Reuters) - From the moment he assumed the job in March, Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda had a number in mind: 9. The number had nothing to do with the scale of the bank's stimulus plan, which the market had been buzzing about. It was a...

By Tomasz Janowski and Chikako Mogi TOKYO, April 30 (Reuters) - In the shadows of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's formidable PR machine, a small, tenacious group of "Abenomics" detractors is battling to be heard and waiting for their "I told you so" moment....

MILAN, April 29 (Reuters) - Rating agency Moody's will monitor the ability of the newly formed Italian government to overhaul the economy, a senior Moody's official told an Italian newspaper on Monday. "We will have to verify the commitment of the new...

LONDON (Reuters) - Korean homebuyers and Chinese small firms, Brazilian motorists and Turkish banks are now among the main culprits in running up emerging market debt, replacing governments who have largely put their books in order. Investors'...

By Mike Dolan LONDON, April 26 (Reuters) - Hints the euro zone may shift away from front-loaded fiscal austerity have been treated kindly by financial markets this week as bond investors seem comfortable with at least a measured tilt in the policy mix....

LONDON (Reuters) - Hints the euro zone may shift away from front-loaded fiscal austerity have been treated kindly by financial markets this week as bond investors seem comfortable with at least a measured tilt in the policy mix. With business sentiment...

MILAN (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's said on Friday it had kept Italy's sovereign debt rating at Baa2 thanks to the country's reasonably low current cost of funding and its primary surplus. But Moody's maintained its negative outlook for Italian...

LISBON (Reuters) - Official efforts to make euro zone banks build bigger buffers against risk are backfiring by preventing them from scaling down exposure to vulnerable sovereign debt, the head of Portugal's Banco BPI told Reuters. Due to the country's...

PRAGUE (Reuters) - The Czech Republic may adopt the euro around the year 2020, opposition leader Bohuslav Sobotka, the favourite to become prime minister after next year's election, said on Thursday. The Czech Republic does not have any euro adoption...

MADRID (Reuters) - Cut off from regular loan financing after a spectacular banking collapse, Spain's mid-sized companies are being forced into the costly junk bond market to meet their funding needs. The good news? Borrowing costs have slumped, investors...