LONDON :Japanese investors launched their largest monthly sell-off of German bonds in over a decade in April, data showed on Monday, a month after Germany's borrowing costs shot up in reaction to a debt-rule overhaul to ramp up spending. Japanese investors sold nearly 1.5 trillion yen ($10.4 billion) of Germa

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Japanese investors sold nearly 1.5 trillion yen ($10.4 billion) of German bonds after accounting for purchases, according to data released by Japan’s finance ministry, which Commerzbank said was the most since 2014.

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    U.S. Treasury yields were whipsawed in April following U.S. President Donald Trump’s so-called Liberation Day tariff announcements. They surged over 70 basis points (bps) in one week in April, raising questions about the safe haven status of the world’s biggest government bond market.

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