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The movement of Janus Capital shares after Friday's announcement that bond king Bill Gross would join the firm may or may not have been justified.
It is a rare event that a fund manager's departure can create such strong waves in a market, but many of the key closed-end PIMCO funds are selling off on the news.
When you capture the king in chess, the game is over. In the bond market, the game just restarts with some new rules.
Janus Capital has announced that a William H. Gross will be joining the firm. This is the Bond King, Bill Gross of PIMCO.
Sears Holdings will borrow some $400 million from groups affiliated with Eddie Lampert's ESL Investments.
Twitter has raised much more than expected in its convertible debt offering -- to the tune of $1.8 billion.
The U.S. Treasury has conducted a 30-year Treasury bond auction and the results looked impressive.
A filing with the SEC showed that J.C. Penney is raising $350 million via the sale of senior notes that are due in 2019.
Sometimes the markets just can't trust what Federal Reserve and central bank officials say individually.
courtesy of the Federal ReserveThe Federal Reserve has released the minutes of its July 29 to 30 FOMC meeting. While it has been broadly expected that the Fed will keep rates on hold, there is one...
ThinkstockOne of the victims of the recent market trends has been the junk bond, or high-yield, market. Financial media and market pundits have warned that things got too rosy in the sector, and...
ThinkstockThe end of July turned out to be ugly for equity investors, and August started off on the wrong foot as well. On the July 31 drop of 317 on the DJIA, all 30 of the Dow components dropped....
After years of bitter court battles with creditors, Argentina has defaulted on its debt, according to rating agency Standard & Poor’s. After failing to come to an agreement with creditors from...
ThinkstockFed Chair Janet Yellen offered a bit of a surprise in her semiannual Monetary Policy Report in front of Congress on Tuesday. It may seem like a bit like Alan Greenspan’s moment regarding...
Citigroup is finding out that it also gets a turn in the mortgage settlement barrel. Shares have dropped on Friday on news that the U.S. Department of Justice is seeking a $10 billion fine from the...