bond market

Cultural

The market in which bonds are traded before their maturity. If interest rates decline after a bond has been issued, the value of bonds already issued with higher rates of interest will rise, and hence the bond market is said to be “up.” A rise in interest rates will lower the value of bonds issued with lower rates of interest and send the bond market “down.”

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Today, at least, the bond market wasn’t ruffled.

From Barron's

The bond market is tough to understand at the best of times.

From Barron's

Faster than expected readings for both factory gate inflation, published Friday, and personal-consumption expenditures inflation, released last week, should have prompted a bond market selloff that took yields higher.

From Barron's

The bond market, however, doesn’t look like it wants to go along for the ride.

From Barron's

Instead, the $30 trillion bond market was moving on something else: Worries about the destructive impact of artificial intelligence on the U.S. economy.

From MarketWatch

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