The strains in euro-zone bond markets this year show that there are other ways for markets to drive a wedge between the strong and the weak.

今年欧元区债券市场遭遇的重重压力表明市场能够变相离间强国与弱国间的关系。

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This likely would dilute the Treasury bond market, drive down prices, push up yields and cause mortgage rates to rise.

这可能会稀释美国国债市场，压低国债价格，推高收益率，带动抵押贷款利率走高。

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Stocks had been reacting favorably to the expected program because a bond purchase by the Fed would drive interest rates lower.

股市对预期的购买国债计划反应良好，因为美联储此举将降低利率。

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For investors holding bonds yielding 9%, lower rates will mean that demand for access to those 9% interest payments will drive bond prices higher as the market moves to equilibrium with current rates.

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TOKYO A week after Japan's central bank started a huge bond-buying campaign to drive down yields in the country's quadrillion-yen government-bond market, yields instead have risen, a sign of the huge headwinds the bank faces in its push to end 15 years of deflation.

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It is declining growth prospects that have helped to drive down bond yields across large parts of the developed world in the past few weeks - at least those parts of the developed world that are not being punished for joining the euro.

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