When yield curves -- like echo-cardiograms -- flat line, it's a bad thing. That's just something we thought worth pointing out today. The fact that the yield on the 10-year note punched through the 6% level is generating a lot of chatter.
Three is the magic number for bond investors to take away from the European Central Bank's long-term refinancing operations. The three-year maturity limits how far the ECB's cash injections, which total more than €1 trillion ...
Australia, long called the "lucky country," officially is the happiest country on earth. That's at least according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, whose economists reckon they can distill human emotion into ...
TOKYO—Japan's benchmark 10-year government bond yield declined to a nine-year low on Friday, confirming the popularity of Japanese debt as a safe haven amid renewed concerns about the U.S. economic outlook and continued fears over Europe's ...
Watch what they say, not what they do. That reversal of the admonition of John Mitchell, Richard Nixon's attorney general, sums up the advice for investors when assessing this week's meeting of the Federal Open Market Committee.
Greece must be turning into a bad word in Japan. Apart from the obvious impact of the euro zone debt crisis on Japanese exports as the global economy slows, fears of a Greek exit from the euro zone could be starting to affect Japanese ...
The wall of money flooding into high yield bonds has allowed junk-rated issuers to sell bonds with an average yield below 8% this quarter for the first time.
Carl Kaufman doesn't like being boxed in. As the lead manager of the go-anywhere bond fund Osterweis Strategic Income, Kaufman buys what he wants—high quality or low, long duration or short—based on where he sees the best opportunities. ...
Though the market has been in "risk on" mode this year, investors continue to embrace "risk off" strategies. That may change shortly, however, amid a sudden and dynamic shift in capital market conditions. Some experts ...
Has the Federal Reserve lost control of the Treasury bond market? In contrast to other sectors that rallied Monday on the inference taken from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's remarks that persistent weakness in the U.S. labor market calls ...
NEW YORK—Gains in short-dated U.S. government notes shriveled after a mediocre three-year debt auction, while longer-dated Treasurys held in positive territory to snap a three-day losing streak.
J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. didn't have a treasurer in place during a five-month period when the bank's Chief Investment Office placed trades that led to more than $2 billion in losses.
There's Facebook, and then there's the real investing world. Congratulations if you're part of the former alternate universe where wealth beyond belief or reason have been conjured by mass hysteria and have been among the lucky stiffs who ...
While Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke stepped up his public-relations campaign to reassure markets that the central bank will maintain its ultra-accommodative monetary policy, long-term Treasury yields continued their climb.
BOSTON (MarketWatch) — Not so fast: Reports that the 30-year bull market for bonds is dead are great exaggerated. That’s what Kathy Jones, a vice president and fixed-income strategist at the Schwab Center for Financial Research had to say ...
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