Index Atlas Ideas for 2019 Liquidity of a short term end of the European and Japan Bond Curve Should be Bad as at least 234 bonds in 12 EU countries and Japan trade with negative yield..Domestic investors in these countries are likely to chase short term bonds else where? US Treasury Yields – a lot lower Yields in the UK are A Bit Tighter France Bonds have been negatively affected by Yellow Jackets Emerging Market Bonds Should Be Better With Negative Yields in a lot of places.. Emerging Markets Bonds – Mostly Seen Yield Contraction with only a Few Exceptions Lebanon bonds – move into high yield category Nostrum Oil Eurobond Negatively Affects Kazakhstan average Few Bonds Were Significantly Weaker in the last month of 2018 Besides mentioned Nostrum Shell Drilling Inc with EBTIDA of 205 mln$ for 2017 and total debt of 840$mln Yielding 10.7% Oman’s Bank Muscat with 6.06% Yield Oman’s Lamar Funding with 7.2% Yield Argentina RIO ENERGY SA with 12.13 Zambian First Quantum Minerals with 10% China’s CITIC bank with 3.8% yield Etc.. Venezuelan Eurobonds – Hot Topic Italian Bonds – another popular topic Local Sovereign Yields are a lot better – and with stable DXY – we might see few carry trades opportunities Ukraine – in pre-election, Is there a buying opportunity?

Source: ML