The Federal Reserve's commitment to keep interest rates low is meant to lower long-term borrowing costs, but some investors are starting to bet that the central bank's move ultimately will do the opposite.
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 ...
The Fed's decision to start publishing expected targets for the Fed funds rate may have been greeted with a shrug among stock traders, but it's a potentially important development in the bond market.
Medium-term Treasurys made a few entries in the record books as the market continued to rally off the Federal Reserve's bond-friendly policy.
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — First there was debt contagion. Now, Portugal is demonstrating the perils of “restructuring contagion,” as government bond yields soar to euro-era records on fears Lisbon will be forced to follow Greece in seeking ...
FRANKFURT (MarketWatch) — It’s been a whirlwind 100 days for Mario Draghi since taking the helm of the European Central Bank, highlighted by two rate cuts, the injection of a massive dose of liquidity into the banking system and an apparent ...
NEW YORK—Month-end buyers spurred Treasury prices higher, helping the market recover from overnight losses and end January with a bang on five consecutive positive sessions.
NEW YORK—Money was drained from the U.S. Treasury market for the fourth consecutive session, propelling yields to their highest levels of the new year.
The Italian bond market poses a puzzle. The yield on Italian three-year paper is 7.89% while the yield is 7.56% on its 10-year paper. Downward sloping yield curves, or yield inversion, tend to foretell recession. That's because the markets ...
Earlier, we questioned Bill Gross's assertion that the ECB was offering backdoor QE to euro-zone sovereigns with its Long Term Refinancing Operation.
Underlying the annual ranking of the Best Mutual Fund Families from Barron's and Lipper is the one-year performance of their funds across five categories, including world equities (both global and international), tax-exempt bonds, U.S. ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Treasury prices rose Monday, pushing 5-year yields down to their lowest levels on record, as investors worried about the prolonged delay of a debt deal for Greece and as European leaders met to finalize tougher ...
When stocks recently hit a six-month high, U.S. Trust's chief investment officer, Christopher Hyzy, expected to hear from investors eager to buy more shares. Instead, calls came in from clients who wanted to know if they should take ...
Van Hoisington, President and Chief Investment Officer of Austin, Texas-based Hoisington Investment Management, cut his teeth in the bond bear market of 1978 to 1980. That was back when interest rates went from roughly 7% to 15%. Hoisington ...
Greece may breathe a sigh of relief when—or if—it finally completes its long-delayed debt restructuring next week. But the plodding negotiations have been bad news for another country: Portugal, whose creditors fear they may be force-fed the ...
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