Global negative-yielding debt slips to $9.1 trillion: Fitch

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The amount of negative-yielding government bonds globally fell to $9.1 trillion as of Dec. 29, 2016 on a stronger dollar even as long-dated European and Japanese sovereign debt yields changed little, Fitch Ratings said on Wednesday.

This compared with $9.3 trillion of negative-yielding sovereign debt on Nov. 28, 2016. The amount of negative-yielding European and Japanese government debt peaked at about $11.7 trillion last June, according to the rating agency.

(Reporting by Richard Leong; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)

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