Stock investors have gotten off to a wobbly start to the new year, hobbled by shifting expectations on the timing and extent of Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts in…
Read more Why stock-market investors will remain at mercy of shifting rate-cut expectations after wobbly start to 2024The rally lifting U.S. stocks to fresh 2023 highs in the year’s home stretch could be at risk if the Federal Reserve on Wednesday crushes expectations for interest-rate…
Read more This week's Fed meeting could slam brakes on year-end stock rallyNovember’s sharp pullback in 30-year fixed mortgage rates may not last if the labor market remains strong, said Mark Palim, deputy chief economist at Fannie Mae. Palim was…
Read more Mortgage rates' dip to 7% could be brief if jobs market stays strong, Fannie Mae economist saysFinancial conditions are now looser than in September, says economist Financial conditions in the U.S. are looser than in September, says economist. Getty Images The feel-good tone gripping…
Read more November's rally just erased two months of Fed tightening, economist saysIt was a trading day unlike any other for traders in the $25 trillion Treasury market, with a 30-year bond auction seen as having been partially undermined by…
Read more How ransomware attack on ICBC rattled the Treasury market and shook up a 30-year bond auctionThursday afternoon’s $24 billion sale of 30-year Treasury bonds drew weaker-than-expected demand, according to Greg Faranello, head of U.S. rates trading and strategy at AmeriVet Securities in New…
Read more Treasury’s $24 billion 30-year bond auction goes poorly, trader saysThe 10-year Treasury yield continued to pull back from 5% on Friday after moving tantalizingly close to surpassing that level in the previous session. The yield touched 5%…
Read more Why strategists see 10-year Treasury yield breaching 5% despite Friday’s pullbackTuesday’s selloff in U.S. government debt picked up steam in the late afternoon, sending most Treasury yields either further above or toward 5%. The jump in market-implied rates…
Read more Selloff in Treasurys gains momentum in late afternoon, pushing 3-month through 30-year yields either further above or toward 5%U.S. homes may be wildly unaffordable for first-time buyers, but mortgage bonds backed by those same properties could be dirt cheap. Shocks from the Federal Reserve’s dramatic rate…
Read more Homes are expensive right now, but these mortgage bonds look cheapOil traders on Sunday said crude prices were likely to remain supported in the near term, as investors assessed the fallout from the surprise attack by Hamas on…
Read more ‘Fear trade’: What Israel-Hamas war means for oil prices and financial marketsU.S. stocks saw a surprising bounce on Friday, culminating in the S&P 500 index’s biggest intraday comeback since the March banking crisis, even though a monthly jobs report…
Read more U.S. stocks staged a surprising rally on Friday. But can the party last?U.S. stocks saw a surprising bounce on Friday, culminating in the S&P 500 index’s biggest intraday comeback since the March banking crisis, even though a monthly jobs report…
Read more U.S. stocks stage a surprising rally on Friday. But can the party last?U.S. stock indexes rallied on Friday to finish the volatile trading week in the green as Wall Street debated on whether a blockbuster surge in jobs created last…
Read more S&P 500, Nasdaq notch best week in over a month as stocks jump after blowout jobs numberThe yield on the 30-year Treasury bond briefly rose above 5% again on Friday, opening the door to the likelihood of a more sustainable rise above that mark…
Read more Why 5% bond yields could wreak havoc on the marketU.S. stocks finished higher on Wednesday as yields on long government bonds retreated from 16-year highs, helping lift the S&P 500 to its best day in three weeks.…
Read more S&P 500 scores best day in 3 weeks as bond yields ease backCarnage in the bond market in September could tee up an opportunity for investors to earn big returns on U.S. government debt in a year. Owners of 10-year…
Read more How 10-year Treasurys could produce 20% returns, according to UBS“‘You could ask who is really running the show? Jerome Powell or Jensen Huang? Amazingly, it may not be Powell, but Jensen Huang who is driving Fed expectations.’”…
Read more How Nvidia’s Jensen Huang may be driving Fed rate-hike expectationsThe recent rise in long-dated Treasury yields boils down to mostly one single thing, which is higher real rates resulting from changing expectations for U.S. economic growth, according…
Read more Rise in Treasury yields is almost entirely due to one factor, strategist saysThere is room for a continued selloff in U.S. Treasurys which has already pushed 10- and 30-year yields to their highest levels since 2007 and 2011, according to…
Read more The selloff in Treasurys isn’t over yet, Barclays warnsA worsening U.S. fiscal situation caught stock and bond investors off guard in the past week and now a round of approaching government auctions is about to provide…
Read more Rising Treasury yields spooked the stock market. Now, a key test lies ahead.
