Global Bond Selloff Deepens
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Global Bond Selloff Deepens

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 20261 min
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This episode is brought to you by Hard Lessons, a podcast from Morgan Stanley. Some investing lessons only become clear after you see how a call plays out. On Hard Lessons, iconic investors sit down with Morgan Stanley leaders to go behind the scenes on the critical moments, both successes and setbacks, that shaped who they are today. Watch or listen to Hard

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Lessons wherever you get your podcasts. Here's your Morning Brief for Thursday, October 1st. I'm Daniel Bock for The Wall Street Journal. A global bond route is deepening on higher oil prices, pushing yields on government

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debt around the world to multi-decade highs. Ten-year Treasury yields have hit a 24-year record, but the sell-off is even more pronounced elsewhere. French 10-year bond yields jumped as much as 10 basis points, as have those on UK long-dated

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