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stjeanluc
April 14th, 2014 at 3:53 pm

Hard to believe how low some of these yields are:

http://www.bespokeinvest.com/thinkbig/2014/4/14/sovereign-yields-continue-lower.html

The top chart below shows the current yields on 10-year sovereign debt for some of the largest economies in the world.  In this chart we have also highlighted (in red) each G8 country to show where the yields on their long-term debt stand relative to the rest of the world.  Not surprisingly, most of the G8 countries have yields that are at the lower end of the spectrum.  Outside of Russia, which has its own country specific issues, the ten-year yields of the remaining seven countries are all in the bottom ten positions.  Japan currently has the lowest 10-year yield at a level of 0.61%, while Brazil has the highest with a yield of 12.6%!