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By John Caiazzo |
June 17, 2013
"Grasping at straws." Investors spent market session hours searching frantically for a reason to buy or sell equities, Treasury bonds, currencies and other dollar and interest rate based criteria on which to develop a trade.
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By Liz Capo McCormick and Neal Armstrong, Bloomberg |
June 14, 2013
The yen strengthened against most of its 16 major counterparts after minutes from the Bank of Japan’s latest meeting showed one policy maker advocated restricting stimulus to a two-year period.
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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 Jae Hur |
June 11, 2013
Copper declined for a fifth day, the longest slump since Feb. 22, amid speculation that central banks will limit future stimulus.
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By Ari Altstedter and Joseph Ciolli, Bloomberg |
June 11, 2013
The yen rose the most in three years against the dollar as the Bank of Japan refrained from adding more stimulus measures that tend to weaken a currency.
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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?
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By Marc Nemenoff |
June 11, 2013
Sept. Bonds are currently 10 lower at 138’19. This market has broken sharply since early Friday morning after the monthly Employment Report, which had the bonds as high as 141’11 up slightly reacting to a small uptick in the unemployment rate.
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By Joseph Ciolli and Neal Armstrong, Bloomberg |
June 11, 2013
The yen rose more than 1% against all 16 of its major peers after the Bank of Japan refrained from introducing additional stimulus measures that tend to weaken a currency.
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By Anthony Lazzara |
June 11, 2013
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said he sees no need to expand monetary stimulus immediately in an official BOJ statement made last night. The equity markets are selling off this morning mainly on that "disappointment."
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By John Detrixhe, Bloomberg |
June 7, 2013
The dollar remained lower against the yen after a report showed employment growth was more than forecast last month while the jobless rate unexpectedly increased, spurring speculation the Federal Reserve will maintain its stimulus programs.
