Dollar debt

Discussion in 'Wall St. News' started by dealmaker, Oct 6, 2018.

  1. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    Dollar debt. China is planning to sell $3 billion in U.S. dollar bonds this month, its second such sale in a year. The country is apparently planning to become a regular issuer of sovereign debt, this time offering bonds with five, 10 and 30 year maturities. Nikkei Asian Review
     
  2. pipeguy

    pipeguy

    In dollars? It becomes really interesting from the standpoint of usage of dollar as the global currency. Seems rumors about currency revolution is a bit overrated
     
  3. sle

    sle

    I am not much of a macro economist, but it's probably some form of the benchmarking play (considering the size). Like they want to have some USD-denominated debt for credit benchmarking
     
  4. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    We're seeing a sell-off with no fear, says chief economist



    Listen to Melissa Lee from 2:35 to 2:49 then to Jack Bouroudjian from 2:53 to 3:00...
     
  5. pipeguy

    pipeguy

    Nice.. btw dealmaker have you seen how rate hike odds on future rose after the sell-off? It rose to 81.4% AFTER S&P 500 erased 7%. Why selling but betting on rate hikes at the same time? Can't get my head around it, maybe it's simply "market reset" before the new year rally
     
  6. dealmaker

    dealmaker

    I am guessing the market now believes Fed will raise the rates despite President's protests.
     
    Last edited: Oct 14, 2018
  7. dealmaker

    dealmaker

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  8. pipeguy

    pipeguy

    So what does it mean? Impressive nominal GDP growth but measly real growth rate right?