The green bond market is only at its early stages of development but is experiencing steady growth over the last two years with strong activity across the primary market, writes Amundi's Marie-Anne Allier.
Amid widely-held short positions in Italian debt
Most developed market yield curves have suffered bear steepening over the past month, despite quantitative easing.
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Emerging market debt has gained more than 15% in 2016, outperforming all other major asset classes and markets, and confounding the roundly pessimistic expectations at the start of the year.
While IMF global growth forecasts may have finally steadied after five consecutive semi-annual cuts, it is not to say that the global economy has stabilised and is set to normalise once again.
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