Financial Strength Public finance, money & integrity

Sovereign bond market strain

Heavier government issuance is meeting a more price-sensitive and leveraged investor base, so long-term yields and term premiums are rising and bond markets are again disciplining fiscal policy.

Rank: 187; of 250 trends
Attention intensity: 0.47×; 1× is the typical trend
Attention index: 47; 100 is the typical trend
Change: −4%; WoW
Volatility: ±5%; Turbulent

The week ending 7 Nov 2026, World. Volatility is the typical weekly move over the last 26 weeks. How these are measured.

Regional Attention

By region

East Asia

Nordic Baltic

Latin America & Caribbean

5.9×

#20

1.9×

#115

1.3×

#139

1.3×

#131

0.96×

#175

0.63×

#202

0.48×

#198

0.29×

#218

0.28×

#247

0.27×

#225

This trend’s attention intensity in each region, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 11.

By bloc

1.3×

#131

0.93×

#148

0.83×

#169

0.83×

#172

0.71×

#191

0.51×

#192

0.48×

#213

0.48×

#198

0.39×

#209

0.32×

#228

This trend’s attention intensity in each bloc, the average of its member countries, and its rank there: the 10 highest of 13.

By country

10×

#29

7.6×

#10

7.2×

#23

5.4×

#69

5.2×

#49

5.0×

#32

3.4×

#100

3.2×

#73

3.2×

#93

2.1×

#82

This trend’s attention intensity in each country, and its rank among the 250 trends there: the 10 highest of 49.

Attention Index over time

The attention index, worldwide and in each region: 100 is the typical trend in each place, the median of every trend's attention there over the past 52 weeks.

Attention to Sovereign bond market strain, by place

Attention index, a four-week rolling average, on a log scale. 100 is the typical trend in each place, so a line at 1,000 is ten times the typical trend’s attention there. A country chosen at the top of the page is drawn beside its region and the world. Select a place below to bring its line forward.