The U.S. is selling $183 billion of debt, while Japan is selling 40-year bonds following a poorly received auction of 20-year paper.

The spike came after an underwhelming debt auction showed major cracks in investor confidence. According to the Financial Times, the 30-year bond yield jumped to 3.14%, and the […] ...

The poor results come a week after Japan's 40-year yields touched a record high 3.675%, along with an all-time high for 30-year paper and a multi-decade peak for 20-year debt.

World shares are mixed after a closely watched auction of 40-year Japanese government bonds fell flat as worries mount over growing levels of debt. In early European trading, Germany's DAX gained ...

Yet economists at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis point out that this ratio provides little insight into debt sustainability. It is important to look at the public sector’s balance sheet ...

Kazuo Ueda, governor of the Bank of Japan, during a news conference at the central bank’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday. The central bank is raising interest rates while public debt ...