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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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ThinkstockThis might not be a true surplus in the classic sense of budgeting, but it is a start. The U.S. Treasury may start borrowing less money via smaller bond and note auctions. The proposed...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Treasury has just sold its 3.625% 30-year Treasury bonds, or the so-called long bond, at a yield of 3.525%. The recent unsettling of the stock market recovery might have aided this...
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thinkstockThe capital markets have opened back up to Greece. The struggling, or very struggling, island nation in the eurozone (and one of the PIIGS), has tapped the capital markets for a 3 billion...
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ThinkstockGreece reportedly will announce a long-term bond sale as soon as Wednesday, the first time it has had access to capital markets since March 2010. But the question to ask is, is it too soon?...
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ThinkstockDennis Lockhart, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, gave a speech on Wednesday to the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce (obviously in Miami,...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Census Bureau has released data on year-end pension assets for 2013 from the 100 largest public employee pension systems in the United States. These systems account for 89.4% of...
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ThinkstockCitigroup Inc. (NYSE: C) and Toyota Motors Corp. (NYSE: TM) are said to be making history with the first “green bond” of asset-backed securities in the auto industry. Green bonds are...
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Janet Yellen made a bit of a surprise on Wednesday in her FOMC statement and then again in her press conference. The 6.5% unemployment rate threshold has been lightly removed, in part due to the...
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ThinkstockPuerto Rico has started to be referred to as one of the PIIGS of America. The island nation, or protectorate, actually now appears to be conducting a very successful bond offering as...
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ThinkstockPetróleo Brasileiro S.A. (NYSE: PBR), or Petrobras for the rest of us, has embarked upon another large capital raise. While this is nothing compared to its huge equity offering of the...
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ThinkstockThe Federal Reserve has released its year-end reading of household net worth, as well as domestic nonfinancial debt, for 2013. The good news is that this is a record high. The bad news is...
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ThinkstockNII Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: NIHD) is not trading like a company that simply reported a wider loss than expected. The Latin American wireless Nextel telecom provider i sin trouble and...
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