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By Gary Kamen |
May 6, 2013
Last week the S&P 500 was all about jobs, jobs and jobs. On Wednesday ADP released their numbers for April at 119,000, below expectations and dropping the S&P 15 points.
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By Daniel Kruger, Bloomberg |
May 3, 2013
Treasuries fell, boosting the 30-year bond yields by the most in seven months, after a report showed U.S. employers added more jobs in April than forecast, boosting the outlook for economic growth and trimming demand for refuge.
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By Peter Burrows |
May 2, 2013
Apple Inc. avoided as much as $9.2 billion in taxes by financing part of a $55 billion stock buyback with debt rather than offshore cash.
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By Bill Gross |
May 1, 2013
The past decade has proved that houses were merely homes and not ATM machines. They were not “good as money.” Likewise, the Fed’s modern day liquid wealth creations may suffer a similar fate at a future bubbled price.
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By Meera Louis and Liz Capo McCormick, Bloomberg |
May 1, 2013
The U.S. Treasury Department said it plans a floating-rate note sale as early as the fourth quarter this year and signaled it may decide to “gradually” reduce coupon auction sizes.
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By Susanne Walker and David Goodman, Bloomberg |
May 1, 2013
Treasury 10-year yields traded at almost the lowest level this year and volatility slid to a record on bets the Federal Reserve will affirm its commitment to the pace of bond purchases to support growth.
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By Susanne Walker and David Goodman, Bloomberg |
April 30, 2013
Treasuries rose, pushing 10-year yields to the lowest level this year, after a private report showed business activity in the U.S. unexpectedly shrank in April for the first time in more than three years.
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By Daniel Kruger and Susanne Walker, Bloomberg |
April 29, 2013
Treasury 10-year-note yields traded at almost the lowest this year as U.S. personal spending slowed last month, signaling reduced economic growth and underpinning demand for the securities.
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By Matthew Brown and Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
April 29, 2013
Stocks climbed, with the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index returning above its record closing level, after U.S. home sales increased and investors speculated central banks will continue to stimulate the economy.
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By Whitney Kisling, Bloomberg |
April 29, 2013
U.S. technology stocks, the second-best industry of the past decade, have fallen to the cheapest levels in at least seven years and are vulnerable to more losses as analysts reduce second-quarter profit estimates.
