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If you haven’t noticed the move higher in bond yields, you might want to pay attention and see what has happened on the long-end of the Treasury yield curve. This has been driven largely by fears...
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You might not have seen the end nor heard the end of the world of negative interest rates yet. Just don’t tell that to longer-term and intermediate-term German bund traders. Short term and...
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Any time that investors see a stock down 6% or more, they probably aren’t going to be too keen on hearing that the drop is actually supposed to be good news. If that big drop is from a securities...
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One Federal Reserve president, who is not an FOMC voting member, has indicated that one rate hike in 2016 might be appropriate as the economic fundamentals remain strong enough.
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In the latest Merrill Lynch RIC Report, which is effectively a culmination of the firm's top research ideas, views and advice for clients, the one common theme throughout was where to find yields.
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It turns out that there may just be a few points driving all this gold demand. And to make matters even more complex, those pressures may only get stronger ahead.
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It would normally be huge news when a company sells almost $20 billion in debt. These days it seems like ‘just another corporate giant is raising cash’ as we have seen many large bond offerings....
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The Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) has decided to leave interest rates unchanged at its two-day June meeting. This should hardly be a surprise to any economist or to any...
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Investors often wonder what to think when the stock market hits new all-time highs. Do they sell or do they chase the market higher?
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Treasury yields may still be too low for most sensible U.S. investors to chase today, but the yields on long-term rates have started ticking back up from the post-Brexit lows. Maybe a record stock...
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The default rate on U.S. high-yield bonds rose to nearly 5% in the first half of 2016, with a total value of more than $50 billion.
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After all the talk of interest rate hikes and gradually tightening monetary policy from the Federal Reserve, interest rates on the 10-year bond have touched record lows yet again.
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If the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) ends up voting to hold the target fed funds rate as is, then a potentially embarrassing situation for the Fed could develop.
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According to a report came from Fitch Ratings, there was a whopping $10.4 trillion in sovereign debt with negative yields in May.
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24/7 Wall St. has decided to track seven funds, all either closed-end funds or exchange-traded funds (ETFs), that offer yields of 10% or more.
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