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A strong start to the latest corporate earnings season helped
equity markets bounce back in October. Gains were seen across many
stock markets across the world. Singapore shares performed
especially well over October as travel restrictions eased
considerably with the introduction of Vaccinated Travel Lanes with
several countries.
While equity implied volatility trended down over the month, a
fair amount of repricing took place in fixed income markets as a
number of short-end curves saw rates jump mid-month. Further out on
various yield curves, inflation (and even stagflation) risks were
in focus as energy and commodities prices soared. This and imminent
Fed tapering caused many bond markets, including SGD bonds, to
suffer from significant yield increases.
The iBoxx SGD Overall index saw its yield rise 25 bps over the
month as the SGD bond market posted a loss of -1.47%. Though
overall yields rose, credit spreads tightened somewhat and this led
to the Non-Sovereign sub-index outperforming the Government
sub-index. Indeed, longer dated Singapore Government Bonds were
among October's worst performers but from the perspective of the
overall index, all maturity-by-rating segments were in the red this
month.
The overall index closed the month offering a yield of 2.12%
with a duration of 7.15 years.
November 2021 Rebalance
This rebalance, just over S$ 4.7 billion of new notional was
inserted into the index via six new bonds. The insertions included
a 2.6 yard 30- year SGB and a 900 million 7-year HDB bond.
Meanwhile, slightly more than S$ 900 million of bond notional
(that is expiring in less than one year) left the index via four
departing corporate bonds.
Please refer to the full report for rating changes observed at
the November rebalance.
Posted 05 November 2021 by Rahul Sharma, Director - Indices, IHS Markit
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