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Article: S&P rolls out international Treasury bond index.
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- Investment Adviser
- Article date:
- November 10, 2008
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Byline: Jim Robinson
Standard & Poor's has launched an international Treasury bond index series to meet growing demand for a benchmark representing developed-market Treasury bonds.
The launch of the S&P/Citigroup International Treasury Bond index series is the latest in an expansion of S&P's fixed-income index capabilities, following the recent launches of the S&P US Commercial Paper and S&P/LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 indices.
According to S&P, Treasury bonds issued by sovereign nations outside the US continue to grow in importance - as of the end of December 2007, the market had more than ...