{"id":809290,"date":"2026-10-21T03:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:58:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809290\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T03:58:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T03:58:15","slug":"french-unrest-ai-debt-risks-push-investors-toward-ultralong-jgbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/809290\/","title":{"rendered":"French unrest, AI debt risks push investors toward ultralong JGBs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/markets\/bonds\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bonds<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">20-year auction sees record bid-to-cover ratio as Japan fiscal worries ease<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/9\/1.jpeg\" alt=\"20261020N France protest\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Police in riot gear stand guard in Paris as a fire burns. French government bond yields have risen amid political instability and concerns about the country&#8217;s public finances.<\/p>\n<p>SACHIYO OISHI<\/p>\n<p>October 21, 2026 01:15 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Demand for ultralong-term Japanese government bonds proved brisk at an auction Tuesday of 20-year debt as uncertainty around French bonds and worries about artificial intelligence-related financial risk whet investors&#8217; appetite for assets seen as relatively safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bonds 20-year auction sees record bid-to-cover ratio as Japan fiscal worries ease Police in riot gear stand guard&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":809291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[554,84,460,1294,16788,4214,230024,105432,54775,56,265541,54,55,5703],"class_list":["post-809290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-ai","tag-business","tag-debt","tag-economy","tag-french","tag-investors","tag-jgbs","tag-push","tag-risks","tag-uk","tag-ultralong","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-unrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=809290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/809290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/809291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=809290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=809290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=809290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}