German 30-year bund yields fell to a record low at a government auction Wednesday.
Of course, these yields are all viewed relative to the German bund, currently yielding 1.85%.
Or World War II if that role had been assigned to the German-American Bund?
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As part of the 2010 Expo redevelopment project, the area to the south of the Bund was also rejuvenated.
LIFFE, and has usurped its dominance of Europe's benchmark bond contract, the German bund future.
The two-year bund yielded 2.29%, up from 2.26% on Thursday, while the 10-year yielded 3.75%, up from 3.71%.
The most popular European government bond, the German bund, was being ditched by traders in droves on Friday.
According to founding partner Lyndon Neri, the South Bund provides a much-needed alternative to the grandiose environs of the old Bund.
The June bund future saw gains accelerate leaving the contract 56 ticks higher on the session trading at 123.04.
The convergence of gilt and bund yields now looks to be under way.
Bund futures were trading around 145.33 on Wednesday, 45 percent over par value.
At the north end of the Bund, Shanghai's famous waterfront, the area around the original British consulate has been renovated.
The Bund redevelopment project was awarded to Massachusetts-based firm Chan Krieger Sieniewicz, which also reworked the waterfronts in Detroit, Boston and Pittsburgh.
The hotel is in the tower-filled Pudong area, across the Huangpu River from the famous Bund, in the Lujiazu business district.
September German bund futures remain half a point firmer at 131.67 having earlier made gains of 82 ticks on the day.
Accoya is used around the world, from a velodrome in Tbilisi, to decking on the Shanghai Bund and Disney theme parks.
European bond prices fell on Friday afternoon, with the three-month German bund yielding 2.02%, up from 1.68%, late Thursday in New York.
European bond prices made gains on Friday morning, with the three-month German bund yielding 2.03%, from 1.68% late Thursday in New York.
To put this into perspective, Eurex's ten-year Bund contract averages 500, 000 contracts a day (euro50 trillion), with euro90 billion in open interest.
The 10-year Bund yields were down to just 1.20 percent, not far from a record low of 1.127 percent hit in June.
The centerpiece is a waterfront district known as the Bund, lined with majestic art deco buildings such as the newly restored Peace Hotel.
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When the projects are finished in 2015, visitors will be able to walk roughly 10km from the Bund over to the Expo site.
The moment that upended me came one sunny morning, near the centre of Srinagar, when Bealby led me around the colourful and aromatic shops along The Bund.
The yield on the ten-year German Bund touched 3% last week, an historic low and more than a percentage point below America's comparable bond.
The Hongkou segment of the Bund was known in the past for its international tenants, like the Broadway Mansions Hotel and Russian Consulate.
The euro fell 0.4% to 1.41 against the dollar Monday, and the 10-year German bund fell to a record low yield at 1.92% as prices climbed.
German bund yield have risen sharply in response to better-than-expected U.S. and domestic data, certainly a sign that investors are looking to take on more risk.
One of the clearest examples of the Shanghai Deco style is the old Bank of China headquarters building next to the Peace Hotel on the Bund.
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Big enough to accommodate a couple of hundred dancers, the club boasts huge antique glass windows that look out on the colonial-era buildings dominating the Bund.
The June bund surged to a session high of 121.20 slicing five pips off the 10-year yield to 3.38% while the two-year yield dipped to 1.84%.
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