China needs to build its municipal bond market to generate more sustainable funding for infrastructure projects.

But the bond markets want more.

Turmoil in bond markets began to abate.

Equity markets were subjected to disclosure and transparency requirements.

The bond markets will demand quick and effective action.

Likewise, the development of bond markets has been gaining attention in a growing number of developing countries in all regions, though in many places bond markets are relatively new.

The inflation indexed bond markets were not well developed in the 1980 s.

Some bond markets, too, seem to expect sharply higher inflation.

Its bond markets remain small, and trading volume is low, because the majority of bonds are held to maturity by domestic investors.

France may elect a president who opposes the fiscal compact and whose policies may scare the bond markets.

Germany needs both China s markets and the funds that its government can deploy to purchase German and European bonds.

Separation of ownership from management and effective securities markets reinforce each other.

International commodity markets are under stress.

Either way, interest rates would have to fall in order for world bond markets to clear.

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BRUSSELS August was quieter than feared on the European bond markets.

The healing process is also evident in Europe, though, unfortunately, it is effectively limited only to sovereign bond markets.

In addition to providing more stability, bond markets are expected to stimulate domestic savings and investment.

We do not know what the People s Bank of China (PBOC, the central bank) is doing at the moment in the bond market.

Finally, emerging markets need to redouble their efforts to build bond markets, but on a local basis.

Some might assume that bond markets are shielded from the effects of climate change, ecosystem degradation, and water scarcity.

Sovereign obligations, such as bonds, are commonplace in the capital markets, and demonstrate strong investor demand and confidence.

Local currency government debt markets have performed fairly well during the crisis, while local currency corporate debt markets have played a more modest role as a vehicle for longer term finance.

Local currency bond markets could help to develop domestic investor bases and mobilize domestic savings to support long term investments.

European bond markets are again delivering a chilling message to global policymakers.

Local bond markets provide alternative sources of financing for companies and Governments, which avoid exchange rate risks inherent to foreign financing.

For instance, even creditworthy municipal authorities could benefit from assistance in meeting the requirements of accessing bond markets.

The fundamental problem was premature capital market liberalization.

When an elected government is under assault from the bond markets, it is essential for the political class to remain united.

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While Europe has succeeded in stabilizing its sovereign bond markets, financial intermediation for small and medium size enterprises remains highly disrupted.

They thus provide an important instrument for hedging price risks in commodity markets.

While the US has thus far avoided the bond market s wrath, American political leaders confront the same problem of debt and fiscal sustainability.

Today, many traders see formerly inept state giants as financial geniuses, capable of taming complex financial formulas and exploiting their superior size and trading information to squeeze the life out of currency and interest rate markets.

This encourages short side speculation, which places downward pressure on the underlying bonds.

Longer term equilibrium prices, however, are ultimately determined in cash markets where buying and selling physical commodities reflect the fundamental forces.

Little wonder, then, that we are now witnessing a significant correction in equity, credit, and commodities markets.

And the bond markets will be much more nervous, meaning higher interest payments, which will widen the deficit further.

Even those countries that were better prepared were made painfully aware of the after effects of crisis export markets collapsed, commodity prices fell, and credit markets seized up.

Global stock markets have, overall, reached new highs. And credit markets show low spreads, while long term bond yields have fallen in most advanced economies.

Now, the CDS market offers a convenient way of shorting bonds, but the risk reward asymmetry works in the opposite way.

Interest rates on Russia s bonds have risen by 2 3 percentage points, and many Russian creditors no longer have access to international capital markets.

On this bedrock rose an imposing edifice of bond markets and banks that drove down the cost of finance, and thus sped up the rate of economic growth.

And, to the extent that there is even an informal price target associated with the ECB s commitment to purchase bonds, foreign outflows, at least from the sovereign bond market, are automatically replaced, in full, with ECB cash.

The widening spreads between the interest rate on German eurobonds and some of the other countries euro bonds show that global bond markets take this risk seriously.