By Natasha Brereton-Fukui of Dow Jones Newswires SINGAPORE - Reliance Industries Ltd.'s new US$1 billion 10-year dollar bond strengthened in initial trading Friday, in a positive sign for the many hopeful Indian debt issuers waiting in the ...
If the Australian government wants to guarantee a return to surplus, there's roughly 6 billion Australian dollars (US$6.44 billion) in their coffers targeted for mortgage-backed bond deals that have possibly overstayed their use.
One eye-catching nugget in the treasure trove of correlation data released by HSBC this week is the news that French government debt has very little correlation with investor risk appetite.
After a six-year effort, the House of Representatives passed legislation that would formally ban insider trading by Congress, along the way picking up support from some surprising backers—lawmakers who actively trade stocks.
LONDON—The euro extended a slide in European trading hours Friday as fears re-emerged over Greece's ability to stave off a default. The euro was trading at $1.3230, compared with $1.3286 late Thursday in New York. The dollar was at ¥77.75 ...
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar rose on Friday, with investors shying away from the euro and other assets viewed as carrying higher risk after euro-zone finance ministers delayed approval of a crucial bailout package for Greece.
Economists need to get out more -- Ahead of the Tape Shelling out a $25 billion penalty is certainly painful. But bank-stock investors may be able to grin and bear -- Heard on the Street
Links for the informed adviser... Markets Remember there was finally a Greek bailout-for-austerity deal in place yesterday? So it's not actually a done deal and futures are lower because of it. ( MarketWatch )
If two trains of thought arrive at the same conclusion, it says something about the robustness of that conclusion. Barclays Capital, one of the world's major financial institutions and a respected research center on financial markets and the ...
NEW YORK—The Federal Reserve Bank of New York received $3.2 billion from the special entity it created to sell mortgage bonds it acquired in the 2008 bailout of American International Group Inc., according to data released Thursday.
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — Global investor risk appetite weakened Friday as it became clear that final approval of a second Greek bailout necessary to avoid a messy default won’t come until next week after euro-zone finance ministers ...
For many investment bankers, the crisis has been grim for business. But for one group, there is hope, as Europe's bond market may finally be about to grow up.
"Operation Twist" has got the Treasury market in a knot. One of the goals of Operation Twist, which was implemented in October, was to push investors out of Treasurys and into riskier assets such as stocks. Under the policy, the Federal ...
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced Thursday that Greek politicians struck a long-sought agreement on additional austerity measures, but wouldn’t reveal whether the institution would forgo ...
SHANGHAI—China is on track to reintroduce the trading of government bond futures, a major financial derivatives instrument banned 17 years ago after a trading scandal, a person familiar with the matter said Thursday.