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Investors bet on inflation by purchasing bonds with negative yield

At a time when savers complain that they are earning almost no interest from their bank accounts, some investors Monday bought U.S. government bonds that effectively had negative interest.

In an auction of a special kind of five-year Treasury bond, investors paid $105.50 for every $100 of bonds....

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