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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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courtesy of Tesla MotorsTesla Motors Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) is going to the capital markets for a serious capital raise. Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker is planning to raise $1.6 billion in a...
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Advanced Micro Devices has a proposed $500 million senior note offering, which will effectively finance a tender of other notes coming due. The ratings agencies have chimed in with mixed views.
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Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury released its Budget statement for January 2014 on Wednesday afternoon. The deficit of $10.4 billion was far narrower than the $30.8 billion deficit expected by Bloomberg. It...
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