The latest drubbing in the world's biggest bond markets, which last year suffered a record rout, does not yet point to any dysfunction in the markets themselves, investors said.
But in echoes of the volatile conditions seen during March's banking crisis, trading in euro zone benchmark German government bond futures were briefly interrupted on Thursday when bond yields spiked.
U.S. and British 10-year yields were also set to end the week more than 20 bps higher , .
ING said earlier on Friday that this week's data was strong enough to push yields higher even if jobs numbers interrupt the moves.
"It won't be as bad as that, but higher rates and higher yields could lead to negative returns and pressure returns on equity markets."
Persons:
Mike Riddell, Jan von Gerich, Mark Dowding, Gael Fichan, Fichan, BlueBay's Dowding, Yoruk Bahceli, Samuel Indyk, Harry Robertson, Hugh Lawson
Organizations:
U.S, Federal, Allianz Global Investors, Fed, of, European Central Bank, BlueBay Asset Management, Syz, ING, Global, Thomson
Locations:
Europe, United States, Australia, British, Germany, Britain, U.S, of England