Download or read book Global Financial Stability Report, March 2002 written by International Monetary Fund. Monetary and Capital Markets Department and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2002-03-13 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This March 2002 issue of the Global Financial Stability Report highlights that financial markets ended the year 2001 on a positive note. Equity markets recovered and rallied noticeably from their lows of late September. In bond markets, yield spreads of corporate and high-yielding bonds, particularly emerging market bonds, narrowed against the U.S. Treasury. At the same time, the U.S. Treasury yield curve steepened, and the U.S. dollar has strengthened. Financial markets thus anticipate, and have priced in, a recovery in economic activity and corporate earnings during 2002.