Government Bonds

[BIG-notorious]

Just looking at certain bonds in Europe which appear to me to have inexplicably high yields despite either being issued in euro or having a fairly stable exchange rate with the euro. Particularly Polish and Romanian bond yields.

I see Romanian bonds are on Revolut but the yield quoted is nearly 2% lower than Google suggests is the current yield. They don't seem to be available at all on Trading212.

Does anyone know of an alternate platform where these can be traded?

Thanks.

 

[Shannb1]

They are on Trade Republic

 

[Dr Strangelove]

Poland and Romania both operate floating exchange rate regimes with the euro. So the higher yield is (in part) to compensate for the risk of devaluation.

More generally I know enough about sovereign bonds to know that retail punters shouldn’t be holding them individually. The risk is far too concentrated.

 

[Shannb1]

These are Euro denominated bonds, but I still wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole

 

[presidenttttt]

Is there a bond play after trump starting nuking equities?

 

[joe sod]

Is there a bond play after trump starting nuking equities?

well tariffs are inflationary so that's not good for bonds like we have already seen since the covid inflation, many were investing in treasuries (US government bonds) traditionally deemed the safest investments but now the rapid devaluation of dollar also not good if you are international , well not until the dollar gets very cheap. That is actually one of the intentions of tariffs to devalue the dollar and make US manufacturing more competitive