As risk-off sentiment deepens around the world due to the coronavirus pandemic, red ink has spread to nearly every corner of the major asset classes. For the one-year trend, however, there are still two slices of global markets holding on to modest gains, US bonds, based on a set of exchange-traded funds.

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