Globally, government debt/GDP ratios and debt service costs have increased since the GFC and Covid, raising the relevance and importance of sovereign bond indices like the FTSE Debt Capacity World ...

The federal government is taking on record amounts of debt year after year. The U.S. owes lenders more than $36 trillion. That is close to an all-time high when comparing the debt to the country’s ...

Debt financing costs have jumped to the highest level since 2007 among OECD governments. Interest payment as a share of GDP outpaced defense and safety services. The US accounted for over two-thirds ...

The government hit the debt ceiling back in January which blocked any net new debt from being created from January to June.

The cost of borrowing is already choking crucial public spending in many developing economies. Now it’s raising broader alarms. By Patricia Cohen Patricia Cohen, who has written frequently about debt ...

The fate of Japan — the world’s fourth-largest economy — is important in its own right. But it’s also sometimes seen as a bellwether for the rest of the developed world: i ...