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ThinkstockIf the residents of the city of Detroit want to blame any person or organization for its Chapter 9 filing, they only need to look as far as the unions that controlled labor there and the...
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courtesy U.S. Federal ReserveFederal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke is testifying in his semiannual report to the Congress on Wednesday. The stock, bond, commodity and currency markets are trying to...
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ThinkstockEsther George of the Kansas City Federal Reserve told Fox Business News that it is time to start the end of the Federal Reserve’s bond buying program. While unemployment is high, she...
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Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE: BX) has announced that it is launching its first alternative investment-focused mutual fund that offers daily liquidity. In short, this is a mutual fund that is comprised...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Department of the Treasury auctioned $13 billion in 30-year bonds today at an average yield of 3.66%, a gain of just half a basis point for the day. For comparison, yields on...
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Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury has just conducted a $21 billion 10-year Treasury note auction, which may spook some investors. Interest rates have already risen on the long-end of the yield curve in...
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Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia CommonsBlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK) chief Larry Fink has joined in on the theme that it is time to exit long-term bonds. His thesis is mainly the same that you have been...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Treasury Department auctioned $29 billion in 7-year notes today at a high yield of 1.932%, the highest yield on the 7-year notes since July of 2011. The bid-to-cover ratio was...
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ThinkstockWhen bond guru Jeffrey Gundlach talks, people listen. And today Gundlach spoke to CNBC’s Scott Wapner about the recent dive in the bond markets. In his conversation with Wapner, Gundlach...
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ThinkstockThis week brought on a nasty credit rating downgrade from Standard & Poor’s for the City of Detroit. Now we have word that Detroit’s Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr has identified plans...
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ThinkstockThe United States Treasury has just sold $13 billion in 30-year Treasury Bonds. This “long bond” auction was expected to be highly watched because of the recent rise in interest rates...
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ThinkstockWas Meredith Whitney’s prediction about municipal and state bankruptcies more reality than she was attacked for? The ratings team of Standard & Poor’s issued a substantial downgrade...
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ThinkstockThe next great short is apparently happening sooner than many market participants expected. As interest rates rise, investors are starting to get their heads handed to them if they were in...
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ThinkstockWe have been extensively covering the rising interest rate environment as longer-dated Treasury notes and bonds have been falling in value and rising in yields. Today’s ratings agency...
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ThinkstockThe never-ending bull market in Treasury bonds appears to be looking more and more as though the party is over. At some point, the risk-reward is just too great and people will only settle...
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