By David Scott | Friday 5 February 2016
As of Friday and according to the FT a record $5.5 trillion in government bonds are now trading at negative yields. This means that about one quarter of all global bonds offer negative yields as investors park their cash in the "safety" of government bonds. The FT adds that "fears for economic deterioration and increasingly abnormal policies adopted by global central banks to ward off the threat of deflation have resulted in a bizarre scenario in which investors pay governments to hold their money.
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