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Bond Jitters Test G-7 Finance Chiefs’ Nerves in Paris

An alarming debt-market selloff is intruding on a meeting of finance ministers.
Roland Lescure, France’s finance minister, left, Scott Bessent, US treasury secretary, center, and Villeroy de Galhau, governor of France’s central bank, at the G-7 finance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Paris.Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
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I’m Craig Stirling, a senior editor in Paris for the meeting of Group of Seven finance ministers and central bank chiefs. Send us feedback and tips to ecodaily@bloomberg.net. And if you aren’t yet signed up to receive this newsletter, you can do so here.

“Every beating heart, becomes a part, of Paris in the spring,” is how the classic song ends. But an alarming bond-market selloff, rather than the flowery season in the French capital, may be more the cause if finance ministers’ pulses turned out to be racing slightly faster on Monday.