If the February US jobs report signaled that America is truly rounding the final corner on the Covid-19 pandemic, then after a month of ramped up vaccinations and warmer weather, the latest data suggest that the world’s largest economy is now in an all-out sprint to herd immunity and a full…

There’s always been something of a rivalry between traders in stocks and bonds. Equities grab most of the headlines — they are shorthand for “the market,” after all — and captivate individual investors. Fixed income, on the other hand, is for pessimists and hedgers and is often praised as the …

Apple Inc. is no stranger to causing sticker shock with its newest products. It’s about to find out whether it can create a similar reaction among US corporate-bond buyers with its latest debt offering. The technology giant is taking the rare step of issuing dollar bonds for the second time in…

In some corners of finance, climate-change risks are only starting to appear on investors’ radars. By contrast, in the $3.8 trillion US municipal-bond market, natural disasters have been a nagging concern for decades. In the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005, Moody’s Investors Service slashed…

Government bond yields are tumbling across the globe. In Japan, the 10-year yield is minus 0.03 percent, the second-lowest level in the past two years. In Germany, the 10-year bund yield fell to 0.08 percent, the lowest since October 2016. Should panic about recession in the European Union reach a…