Global Markets-Bond selloff slows but stocks wobble

Global bond yields hovered near their highest for decades on Wednesday, as fears over swelling sovereign debt pushed borrowing costs higher and rattled stock markets worldwide. The yield on the U.S. long bond US30YT=RR hit its highest in nearly 20 years on Tuesday, at 5.3371%, before steadying around 5.28% in Asia on Wednesday. The 10-year DE10YT=RR and 30-year DE30YT=RR bund yields hit their highest since 2011. The French 30-year yield FR30YT=RR is up nearly 50 basis points since the end of June and Japan's once-zero 10-year yield JP10YTN=JBTC is closing in on 3% as inflation rises and investors fret policymakers are moving too slowly to counter it. "Investors are no longer taking on faith that (government) spending gets brought under control. Indeed, they're pricing the risk that it doesn't," said Nigel Green, CEO of financial advisory deVere Group. Bond selling eased in steady Asian morning trade, but the inflation outlook remained troubling with Brent crude futures LCOc1 parked above $90 a barrel on no signs of progress toward a deal to open the Strait of Hormuz to oil tankers. MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan .MISX00000PUS fell 1.7% and Japan's Nikkei .N225 was down 2.6%, following tech-led losses on Wall Street overnight. U.S. ESc1 and European STXEc1 stock futures slipped about 0.1%. In China, shares in the world's biggest humanoid-robot maker, Unitree 688836.SS, soared 600% on debut, a listing that was more than 8,000 times oversubscribed by retail investors. Asia's broader technology and semiconductor stocks came under pressure, tracking overnight losses on Wall Street and from reports that Anthropic's annual revenue run-rate topped $65 billion at the end of July, which was behind some market hopes. The risk-averse mood has lent a little support to the dollar in currency markets, though moves were small. FRX/ The Canadian dollar CAD= rose a tad after U.S. President Donald Trump paused imposing a 50% tariff on Canadian goods for three days, saying the countries had reached a deal. CAD/ The euro EUR= hovered at $1.1576 and the yen JPY= traded at 159.44 per dollar, just in the shadow of 160 - a level investors see as a potential trigger for another round of official intervention. British inflation data on Wednesday is due along with earnings at Lowe's LOW.N, Target TGT.N and TJX TJX.N which will be closely watched after softer-than-expected U.S. retail sales data landed last week. Home Depot HD.N beat estimates for second-quarter sales and profit on Tuesday, on strong demand from customers for repair and maintenance, though U.S. data showed homebuilding dived in July, hit hard by rising mortgage rates. Debt demand is also being stretched by skyrocketing sales by AI hyperscalers. Alphabet, Google's parent, is the latest example, reportedly seeking about A$5 billion ($3.5 billion) through an Australian-dollar bond sale, Bloomberg News reported. "Essentially the marginal investor in bonds, in long-end bonds, sovereign bonds, is becoming a bit more price sensitive at a time where there's a lot of debt issuance occurring," said ANZ senior rates strategist Jack Chambers. ($1 = 1.4128 Australian dollars)

Global Markets-Bond selloff slows but stocks wobble

Bond yields remain near multi-decade highs

Stocks and futures soften as risk appetite fades

Dollar steadies and markets watch upcoming data and debt sales

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