Masaki Kondo

Persistent weakness in the yen culminated in the currency hitting a 40-year low against the US dollar at the end of June, prompting renewed scrutiny of the forces driving the currency lower.

For fund managers in London, New York and Tokyo, a new ritual has emerged before trading gets underway: checking South Korean stocks.

(Bloomberg) -- For fund managers in London, New York and Tokyo, a new ritual has emerged before trading gets underway: checking South Korean stocks.

(Bloomberg) -- As investors debate whether and when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, market expectations for further tightening are building around the world — and spelling trouble for bonds.

Traders are pricing in about 400 basis points of rate hikes across seven major markets over the next year, data compiled by Bloomberg show. If they're right, the implications may ripple beyond bonds, weighing on richly-valued stocks by reducing the present value of future earnings, tightening financial conditions and disrupting currency trades.

Customize Consent Preferences As investors debate whether and when the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates, market expectations for further tightening are building around the world — and spelling trouble for bonds.

Yardeni Research warned that investors are showing growing signs of unease over rising government debt, though it said there’s no reason to push the panic button on the US bond market just yet.

There's no reason to panic on the US bond market just yet, even as investors are showing growing signs of unease over rising government debt, according to Yardeni Research.

Positions on Australia’s three-year bond futures have risen toward an all-time high as the nation’s growing debt pile fuels demand for hedging.

Realization of a three-dimensional (3D) analog of graphene has been a central challenge in topological materials science. Graphene is stabilized by covalent bonding, unlike conventional spin-orbit-type 3D Dirac semimetals (DSMs). In this study, we demonstrate the material realization of covalent-type 3D DSMs ${R}_{8}\mathrm{Co}{X}_{3}$ stabilized by covalent bonding. We confirm the clean Dirac semimetal state in ${\mathrm{Y}}_{8}{\mathrm{CoIn}}_{3}$ by combined thermodynamic and transport experiments. We also realize high carrier mobility exceeding $3000\text{ }\text{ }{\mathrm{cm}}^{2}/\mathrm{Vs}$ even in polycrystalline samples of ${R}_{8}\mathrm{Co}{X}_{3}$. Our research provides a material platform for exploration of Dirac electrons in three dimensions with wide chemical tunability.