{"id":34013,"date":"2020-11-25T04:57:45","date_gmt":"2020-11-25T04:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=34013"},"modified":"2020-11-25T04:57:47","modified_gmt":"2020-11-25T04:57:47","slug":"china-borrows-at-negative-rates-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/china-borrows-at-negative-rates-for-the-first-time\/","title":{"rendered":"China Borrows at Negative Rates for the First Time"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>China sold negative-yield debt for the first time, and this saw a high demand from investors across Europe. As yields in Europe are even lower, there was a huge demand for the 4-billion-euro bonds issued by China.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/current-affairs-quiz-2019-daily-gk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key-Points<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>China\u2019s 5-year bond was priced with a yield of \u20130.152%, and the 10-year and 15-year securities with positive yields of 0.318% and 0.664%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negative-yield bonds are debt instruments that offer to pay the investor a maturity amount lower than the purchase price of the bond.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These are generally issued by central banks or governments, and investors pay interest to the borrower to keep their money with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negative-yield bonds attract investments during times of stress and uncertainty as investors look to protect their capital from significant erosion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a time when the world is battling the Covid-19 pandemic and interest rates in developed markets across Europe are much lower, investors are looking for relatively better-yielding debt instruments to safeguard their interests.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China sold negative-yield debt for the first time, and this saw a high demand from investors across Europe. As yields in Europe are even lower, there was a huge demand for the 4-billion-euro bonds issued by China. Daily Current Affairs Quiz 2020 Key-Points China\u2019s 5-year bond was priced with a yield of \u20130.152%, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":34014,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1329],"tags":[58],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-34013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2020","tag-international-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34015,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34013\/revisions\/34015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34013"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=34013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}