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By Press Release |
June 19, 2013
Volume might have turned around with the Q1 uptick; North America slightly oupaces Asia.
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By Bloomberg News |
June 19, 2013
China’s government said the nation’s financial system must “better” serve economic growth under a prudent monetary-policy framework as the cost of borrowing on the interbank market surged.
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By Inyoung Hwang and Katie Brennan, Bloomberg |
June 17, 2013
Stocks pared gains and Treasuries fell on concern the Federal Reserve may signal it will scale back stimulus efforts at the conclusion of its next policy meeting.
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By Susanne Walker and Anchalee Worrachate, Bloomberg |
June 17, 2013
Treasury 10-year note yields were in the narrowest range in seven weeks as investors weighed whether the U.S. economy was strong enough for the Federal Reserve to reduce bond purchases designed to hold down borrowing costs.
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By Andrea Tan and Sanat Vallikappen, Bloobmerg |
June 14, 2013
Singapore’s monetary authority censured banks for trying to rig benchmark interest rates and ordered them to set aside as much as S$12 billion ($9.6 billion) at zero interest pending steps to improve internal controls.
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By Daniel Kruger and Anchalee Worrachate, Bloomberg |
June 13, 2013
Treasuries rose as the World Bank lowered its forecast for global growth amid concern central banks are considering pulling back on stimulus measures, fueling demand for the relative safety of government debt.
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By Lisa Abramowicz, Bloomberg |
June 13, 2013
Wall Street’s biggest bond dealers are telling clients to shift from most fixed-income markets into U.S. stocks as deepening concern the Federal Reserve will pare unprecedented stimulus fuels the worst debt losses since 2011.
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By Jamie Macrae |
June 12, 2013
Tapering and tightening are not the same thing. Tightening is tantamount to stepping on the brakes, while tapering is akin to easing up on the gas pedal. Whether this analogy holds true depends on which “effect” the market is more sensitive to.
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By Lucy Meakin and Maria Levitov, Bloomberg |
June 11, 2013
Investors should get used to U.S. Treasury yields rising toward 4 percent as the 30-year bull market in bonds comes to an end, according to Jim O’Neill, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
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By Frank Holmes |
June 11, 2013
Given this rising interest rate environment, we wondered how gold, oil and other commodities, as well as energy and materials stocks have historically performed. With a hot economy, will we see hot commodities?
