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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 Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
June 17, 2013
More than $500 billion wiped off the value of U.S. stocks is providing opportunities for investors who remember that equities tend to rise when the Federal Reserve begins reducing efforts to stimulate the economy.
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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 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 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 Alexis Leondis, Bloomberg |
June 11, 2013
Pacific Investment Management Co., the world’s largest active bond manager, said investors should cut risk amid a more than 60% chance of a global recession in the next three to five years.
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By Lorraine Woellert, Bloomberg |
June 7, 2013
American employers took on more workers than forecast in May as the world’s largest economy weathered the impact of higher taxes and federal spending cuts.
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By Jeff Kearns, Bloomberg |
June 7, 2013
The Federal Reserve says it will keep buying bonds until the labor market has “improved substantially,” without defining the phrase. Officials may have adopted a threshold nevertheless, say two former Fed economists.
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By Jeff Kearns and Joshua Zumbrun, Bloomberg |
June 5, 2013
The economy expanded at a “modest to moderate” pace in 11 of 12 Federal Reserve districts, with broad-based gains ranging from business services to construction and manufacturing, the central bank said today.
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By Whitney Kisling and Nikolaj Gammeltoft, Bloomberg |
June 4, 2013
U.S. stocks fell, sending the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index to an almost one-month low, as economists predicted the Federal Reserve may reduce stimulus as soon as September.
