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ThinkstockIt has only been about 10 days since we pondered whether the bond rally was signaling the risk of a recession or something else negative in a flight to safety trade. And now a 10-year...
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ThinkstockStandard & Poor’s has affirmed its AA+ rating on the United States of America for its sovereign credit. On top of that, its outlook remains Stable. S&P said that U.S. strengths...
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Wikimedia CommonsAT&T Inc. (NYSE: T) had a sale of $2 billion in corporate bonds slated for Tuesday. Investors need to care about this offering because this represents AT&T’s first real...
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Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty ImagesWhen Treasury yields fall, it generally means that investors around the planet are looking for a flight to safety. Or in the extreme cases, it signals that the...
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Courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is not exactly the sort of company you think of with a corporate credit rating call. Standard & Poor’s has issued a rating of “B-”...
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ThinkstockThe FOMC has released the minutes of its April 29 to 30 meeting. We would caution that these minutes cover the announcement by the Federal Reserve from April 30, and we would also stress...
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squirrel83, via Wikimedia CommonsIf you have been reading 24/7 Wall St., you have been warned about the possibility that the Federal Reserve could actually begin hiking interest rates and tightening...
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ThinkstockCharles Plosser, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, was speaking on Tuesday regarding his economic outlook and housing in front of the Women...
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ThinkstockJames Bullard, President of the St. Louis Federal Reserve, may have inadvertently caused a small stir in the markets on Friday. After Janet Yellen has been speaking about exceptionally low...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve releases its balance sheet details each week. These are no longer moving the credit markets as the perception is that the end of quantitative easing has started via the...
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ThinkstockThe media debate over PIMCO about who said what between “bond king” Bill Gross and Mohamed El-Erian is not in the news so much right now, but the reputational damage to the firm may...
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ThinkstockWith both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average hitting new all-time highs this week, investors have to wonder how they should be positioning themselves for the rest of the...
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Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsMonday might not feel like any major news day, but the Dow Jones Industrial Average has just hit a new all-time high of 16,695.18. On last look, the Dow was trading...
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Jon OggMore than once over the past two years, the 24/7 Wall St. team has tried to identify opportunistic times to effectively short the Treasury bond market. If the horrible reaction to Thursday’s...
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ThinkstockIf bonds are rallying, yields are dropping, often due to worries that the economy will slow down or that bonds will be more desirable than stocks. It does not always work out that way, but...
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