Bond market prices susceptible to volatility

Bond market price volatility has increased over recent weeks as nervousness has spread through the f...

Bond market price volatility has increased over recent weeks as nervousness has spread through the financial markets. Prices in the UK bond market have been falling since January against a backdrop of higher international interest rates and a stronger domestic economy. Higher bond yields and tighter monetary conditions combined to damage sentiment in the equity and commodity markets in May. Emerging market bonds and corporate bonds shared in the general sense of anxiety that began to grip the financial markets over recent weeks, although we have seen nothing like the market gyrations of p...