European stock markets have been tumbling all week over fears of the damage a Greek exit from the euro zone could do to the single currency and even the European Union. Yet through it all, Germany's borrowing costs keep going down—so much ...
President Obama's standard gripe is that the economy has performed so poorly during his term because of the financial crisis he inherited from George W. Bush. But this week it is Mr. Obama who has bequeathed to his successors a landmark in ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices gained on Friday, retracing some of the prior session’s decline, though bonds are still down for the week.
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — The Treasury Department on Friday again refused to label China a currency manipulator, a move that drew a quick rebuke from Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. on Friday called on China to allow its currency, the yuan, to appreciate further, but the Treasury Department once again stopped short of accusing Beijing of manipulating the currency.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — The U.S. dollar rose on Friday, remaining on pace to end a fourth straight week of gains that has taken the greenback to its highest level since 2010.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices declined Thursday, pushing yields up from the near-record lows touched in recent sessions, after a pair of reports showed a U.S. economy continuing to recover.
It's quiet out there today. Stocks are little changed, the euro is perched (precariously, but perched) around $1.25 and benchmark 10-year Treasury notes continue to hover near record lows. Unless something earth shattering drops out of ...
WASHINGTON—The Treasury will auction $52 billion in new debt and reopen $30 billion in notes. Details of the offerings (all with minimum denominations of $100):
MADRID—The head of Spain's Catalonia region Friday called for the central government to accelerate plans to share responsibility for regional debt because of increasing difficulties they face to finance themselves, while stressing his ...
Investors in U.S. Treasurys stand a good chance of losing money over time. And yet they can't seem to get enough of Uncle Sam's paper. With the European crisis heating up and concerns about economic growth in the U.S. and China, money once ...
NEW YORK—U.S. Treasury prices rose as investors opted to head into the long holiday weekend with their money in the safe-haven bond market. The market rounds out the session early at 2 p.m. EDT and will remain closed Monday for Memorial Day. ...
The U.S. Treasury Department issued a finding Tuesday that named a Belarus-based bank as a "primary money-laundering concern," which potentially can cut the bank off entirely from the U.S. financial system.
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — U.S. stocks languished between modest gains and losses Friday, with Wall Street largely fixated on Spain, where regional banks are struggling with finances and yields that reflect the government’s borrowing costs ...
NEW YORK—Treasury bonds slipped as investors took some chips off the table from a recent rally. Yet, in a sign of continued anxiety over the euro zone, the U.S. sold $29 billion in seven-year notes at a record-low yield of 1.203%. The yield, ...