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Negative-Yielding Bonds Jump to Almost $12T

France, Germany and the Netherlands have the biggest piles after Japan.

By Phil Kuntz, Bloomberg | Updated on October 03, 2016

The unprecedented worldwide surge in the market for bonds that are certain to lose money if held to maturity regained strength last month.

The total face value of negative-yielding corporate and sovereign debt in the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Index of investment-grade bonds jumped to $11.6 trillion as of Sept. 30, up 6.1% from a month earlier. That sum had fallen for two months in a row from June’s $11.9 trillion peak.

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