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Europe’s banks are seeking increasingly creative ways to finance themselves as they attempt to make up for a dearth of traditional debt funding amid market turmoil. more...

The European Commission will soon present options for the introduction of euro area bonds, Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said on Wednesday, but warned it would not put an end to the crisis. more...

A look at the U.S. ten year yield, and insight on the best strategy for playing the bond market and finding income, with Eric Pellicciaro, BlackRock managing director and head of global rates investments. more...

CNBC's Rick Santelli and Bertha Coombs have an update on the dollar, bonds and gold. more...

The Swiss central bank has started to buy French and German government debt from the markets to try to bring the Swiss franc down, Dow Jones newswire wrote on Saturday, quoting a report by German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. more...

Pimco's manager in charge of the world's largest bond fund, Bill Gross, may have made a mistake when betting against US bond prices earlier this year, but the economy has deteriorated faster than anyone had appreciated, analysts told CNBC Tuesday. more...

CNBC's Ross Westgate with details on what the two European leaders will be discussing at their meeting today, and CNBC's David Faber weighs in on another round of job cuts on Wall Street. more...

S&P is *worried about "what you're going to get in terms of the payback is going to worth a lot less, Gundlach said. "But that is not their job." more...

CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera reports on the ECB buying Italian and Spanish bonds in an effort to reassure the markets, and a play on global currencies, with Andy Busch, BMO Capital Markets. more...

A European bailout of Italy is in the works just as Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi vowed to balance the country's budget by 2013, with CNBC's Michelle Caruso-Cabrera. more...

Banks across Europe are braced to take as much as 17 billion euro ($24.5 billion) of writedowns on their holdings of Greek sovereign debt within a matter of days. more...

Spain sold $2.15 billion (1.5 billion euros) of a 2014 bond, and $2.15 billion (1.5 billion euros) of a 2016 bond on Thursday, which together were at the top end of the Treasury's $2.86-4.30 billion (2-3 billion euro) target range. more...

Yields on South Korean government bonds rose early on Friday, as higher-than-expected inflation and solid exports data stoked expectations of more interest rate hikes this year following the government's upgrade of this* year's inflation forecast.* more...

As stock investors seem to casually buy and take profits, bond investors appear to be hunkering down for the worst. Market observers can’t remember a time when there was such a divergence between the so-called predictive mechanisms of the two markets. more...

US Treasurys may not be such a good bet for investors as yields have dropped too low and questions remain on whether the Federal Reserve will continue to print money after its current round of quantitative easing ends, analysts told CNBC. more...

China is stepping up buying in Japanese government bonds, particularly notes with less than one year to maturity, market players say, in what looks like a fresh drive to diversify its ballooning foreign reserves. more...