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Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury Budget for July was announced Tuesday afternoon. Tuesday’s results followed close enough to analysts’ expectations that it should not rock the boat too much in either...
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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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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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Jon OggThe U.S. Treasury may have had a successful 30-year Treasury Bond auction, but the Treasury budget deficit is alive and well. That means more deficits ahead. The Treasury’s budget deficit...
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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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Fannie Mae has reported its 2013 earnings and the taxpayers appear to be sitting on a profit from the bailout. It is still likely that many members of Congress will keep up their fight to unwind...
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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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Jon OggThe deficit is shrinking! Politicians will likely try to spin this as good news, because it sounds better than calling it less-bad. It is not good news when you see just how much money we...
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ThinkstockRetail sales in Germany were weaker than expected in September, according to data from the federal statistics office released Thursday. Retail sales fell 0.4% from August, to their lowest...
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ThinkstockBankers are still not very well thought of after the financial meltdown, even if they might not have ben that well thought of before the meltdown. Still, at some point the public needs to...
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Jon OggStocks have pulled back from new all-time highs and interest rates have risen more than 100 basis points on the longer-end of the yield curve. Investors are expecting a tapering effect of the...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Treasury has just had its first medium-term note auction for the week in a $35 billion five-year Treasury note auction. This will still pertain to some banks and depository...
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ThinkstockThe U.S. Treasury Department reported today that for the month of June the federal budget ran a surplus of $117 billion. Last June the deficit was $60 billion. The federal budget deficit...
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