Tradeweb Data Points: Government Bonds Update - March 2016

Key information:

• Almost two weeks after the U.S. central bank cut its GDP growth forecast for 2016 from 2.4% to 2.2%, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said on March 29 that the central bank must "proceed cautiously" in lifting interest rates.
• The ECB announced a new stimulus package for the European economy, including deeper interest rate cuts, a new series of longer-term financing operations and the expansion of the asset purchase programme to include non-bank corporate bonds.
• Japan became the second country after Switzerland to issue 10-year benchmark bonds at a negative interest rate.

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