[Mariner]

"Once a rare phenomenon, such securities are becoming more common. The universe of negative yielding bonds in Europe has ballooned from $20bn to $2tn in less than a year, according to JP Morgan. Five-year debt issued by countries such as Denmark, Finland, the Netherlands and Austria all trade at negative rates while corporate debt issued by companies such as Nestlé and Shell has also traded in negative territory"

[9thLife]

Me no get.

[GraceG]

Who buys it?

They sold it, who would buy it?

[Lurkina.n.Learnin]

Heck of an investment here.

[fuente]

Linky no worky without sign up. PASS. Mods delete please.

[rsobin]

People who buy must banking on deflation.

[Iron Munro]

Put it in a safe and take out the full 100% five years later.

[faithhopecharity]

if it’s a guaranteed loss win no possibility of any growth of return, please don’t call it an investment. Word doesn’t apply. Thank u.

[bert]

——accepting a guaranteed loss if they hold it to maturity.——

when the Euro devalues they will make money

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[plain talk]

one article seemed to imply that once bonds go even further negative they could sell them for a profit. seems cash would be even better. so me no comprende.

[nomad]

And what retard would pay to loan the government money?

[capydick]

This makes no sense but there’s been alot going on the last few years that don’t make any sense. Does anyone know if there is anything in place that prevents our own Treasury from buying these boat anchors?

[SnuffaBolshevik]

I felt pretty stupid back in the 90’s when I payroll deducted EE Savings Bonds. Not very sexy.

They’re still grinding out 4.4%.

[catnipman]

here’s a link with the same story for the 99.9999999% of us who are locked out of the ft.com site:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/26/business/dealbook/germany-sells-five-year-debt-at-a-negative-yield-for-the-first-time.html?_r=0

[trebb]

...more than six years after the financial crisis.

Should read "A full six years into the financial crisis".