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Two-year Japanese government bonds sold at negative yield for first time

Section: Daily Dispatches

By Shinichi Saoshiro
Reuters
Thursday, December 25, 2014

TOKYO -- Japanese two-year government bonds were sold for the first time at negative yields today, underlining strong demand for the debt under the Bank of Japan's qualitative and quantitative easing policy, through which it buys large amounts of short-term debt. ...

In Europe, the two-year German bund yield has spent most of its time since August beneath zero, while in the Swiss government debt market even the five-year yield has gone negative.

... For the remainder of the report:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/25/markets-japan-jgb-idUST9N0MW05...



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