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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis series DGS10, DGS30 and DFEDTARU. Treasury series end 17 September 2026; DFEDTARU is a seven-day series sourced to FOMC releases and runs to 20 September 2026. Only dated observations are plotted; neither Treasury series is a liability-discount curve. Retr
Japan's 30-year bond closed at 4.047% on 17 September. In the tenor's entire 6,626-day history it has closed at or above 4% on 25 days — all of them since 18 May 2026.
The Bank of England's £488.2bn gilt stock, split three ways.
Federal Reserve, Summary of Economic Projections, 16 September 2026. Participant counts read from Figure 2.
The BIS, publishing the same morning, describes exactly that market — and measures it at its most permissive. Europe is not missing a virtue. It is missing an instrument.
The strip needs December at 99.9%. The Desk gives it 58%. Futures, the June dot plot and this Desk disagree about the same December meeting — and the gap is no longer about September.
The U.S. Energy Information Administration published its Short-Term Energy Outlook this morning and put Brent at $83 a barrel in March 2027. The full path it published — $93 in September, then $92, $91, $89, $87, $85, $83, and on down to $62 by December 2027 — is fifteen consecutive monthly declines
A day before the gilt sale, the UK government opened Modernising corporate reporting , published 7 September and closing 11:59pm on 30 November 2026 . Its stated objective is “supporting economic growth and strengthening the UK’s international competitiveness.” The proposals cover, in the
On 4 September 2026 the Securities and Exchange Commission filed, in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, an application for an order to show cause and an order compelling Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc. to comply with an administrative subpoena. The docket is 2:26-mc-00078 ; the
Japan’s Ministry of Finance reported that official reserves fell to $1,207.5 billion at the end of August, down $79.6 billion, or 6.18% , from $1,287.1 billion a month earlier. It is the largest monthly fall on record.
St. Louis Fed Financial Stress Index (weekly, latest observation 28 Aug 2026); ICE BofA US High Yield Option-Adjusted Spread and CBOE VIX (daily, latest observations 3 Sep 2026). Series carry different observation frequencies and end dates; no spot and futures series are mixed.
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