NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices gained on Friday, retracing some of the prior session’s decline, though bonds are still down for the week.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — For the first time, the two-year German bond yield may dip below zero, a rare occurrence in the global fixed-income universe and one that flags growing fears over the future of the euro zone.
From Dow Jones Newswires' Martin Vaughan in Singapore: Macquarie Group has shed six positions in its Asia fixed-income division in Singapore, part of a wider move to trim operations globally and focus on the business lines that show the ...
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — So much for the bond vigilantes riding in to punish France for electing an austerity-bashing Socialist to the presidency.
SAO PAULO—The Brazilian real strengthened in intraday trading Friday after repeated interventions by the central bank reinforced the outlook the government won't let the real weaken much past BRL2.05 to the dollar.
United Technologies Corp. sold $9.8 billion in bonds, the biggest corporate-debt offering in three years, to help finance its takeover of aerospace parts maker Goodrich Corp.
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Given what’s likely to happen to interest rates in the coming months and years, now might be the perfect time to use a bond ladder for your portfolio.
Royal Bank of Scotland is downsizing its Australian operations by closing its fixed income, commodity and currency, or FICC, trading business which will directly impact 80 staff.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Company pension plans, which manage almost $7 trillion in investments, are likely to help keep bond yields low as they shift out of stocks and into fixed income to protect decades of future retiree payouts.
The latest flaring of tensions in the euro zone has sparked a scramble for bonds issued by Germany, the safest of Europe's havens. The appeal of German debt in times of crisis was underlined Wednesday, with an auction of two-year paper—known ...
The financial world is dominated by two R words: repression and revulsion. The pair help explain the continued shunning of equities in favor of fixed-income investments that yield next to nothing—and less than inflation.
The heirs to America's fortunes are growing impatient. With interest rates mired near zero and trusts restricted from taking on heavy risk, income payouts from many trusts have shrunk dramatically. Folks who used to collect $1 million a ...
NEW YORK—Greece needs a solution to its impending financial demise, and that solution is to restore its competitiveness by leaving the euro and devalue. Period. End of chat.
The world's biggest bond mutual funds are working to protect their portfolios from a possible exit of Greece from the euro zone. Some portfolio managers are dumping debt of southern European countries, while others are piling into safer U.S. ...
SEOUL—The South Korean won fell for a third straight day against the U.S. dollar Friday, hitting its lowest level in more than seven months despite suspected intervention by local authorities.
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