Bonds

10-year Treasury Note Dropped Down to...

10-year Treasury Note Dropped Down to a Low Record

By Finance Mansion

The surrender on the yardstick 10-year Treasury note has been dropped to a low record on Friday as anxiety about European debt, a weak U.S. economy and anticipation of measurable reduction improved the appeal of the Treasuries. As the price of the Treasury ascended, the 10-year yield tripped to 1.89% from 1.99%...

Here Comes 2011

Here Comes 2011

By Marvin Clark

Welcome to 2011, the year of the Long-Term Evolution (LTE), A.K.A., G4 wireless connectivity. Only Verizon Wireless is offering it as I write this, but only through USB Modems. Smartphones will be out later this year; so it’s here but just not available now to change your life.   The promised upgrade...

ETF News Update: Bonds Get Crushed (TLT,...

ETF News Update: Bonds Get Crushed (TLT, IEF, SHY)

By Wall Street Sector Selector

Bonds were crushed today while equity markets moved higher today in response to better than expected news on the employment front with the ADP December index showing a gain of 279,000 versus 92,000 previously and the December ISM at 57.1 versus 55 prior.   The FOMC meeting showed the Fed sticking to...

Bunds Rise with Periphery Still Under Fire

Bunds Rise with Periphery Still Under Fire

By Reuters

By Kirsten Donovan LONDON, Nov 30 (Reuters) - Spanish and Italian government bond yields hit euro lifetime highs on Tuesday, hammered by concerns about the euro zone's debt crisis, after an 85 billion Irish rescue deal failed to stop the rot in peripheral bonds. With the market focused on which peripheral...

Global Daily Market Drivers And Forex Ramifications...

Global Daily Market Drivers And Forex Ramifications Nov...

By Ava FX Analysts Department

Overview: As was the case yesterday, stocks, commodities, risk forex all retreating thus far today and generally down since Friday on a combination of serious bearish fundamentals that include: uncertainty about the coming Ireland bailout, soaring Portuguese and Spanish bond yields that threaten to force these...

10-year Treasury Note Dropped Down to a Low Record

By Finance Mansion

The surrender on the yardstick 10-year Treasury note has been dropped to a low record on Friday as anxiety about European debt, a weak U.S. economy and anticipation of measurable reduction improved the appeal of the Treasuries. As the price of the Treasury ascended, the 10-year yield tripped to 1.89% from 1.99%...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Bonds News

 

June 28: The Bond Market Conundrum...

posted 06/28/11

Yields on treasury bonds were expected to start trending up as the end point for the Fed's $600 billion QE2 program came closer. The thinking was that as...

 

Daily Market Fundamental Analysis –...

posted 02/19/11

The currency markets ended the week consolidating. The euro is showing resilience in the face of higher yields on European bonds. Peripheral spreads are mostly wider...

 

Who’s to Blame for the Financial...

posted 02/03/11

By Barbara Zigah The findings of the recently published Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission won’t come as any great surprise to those investors who’ve...

 
 
 
 
 
 

Top Bonds News

 

Euro Dips on Profit-Taking, Fails to...

posted 02/21/11

By Ian Chua and Hideyuki Sano SYDNEY/TOKYO, Feb 21 (Reuters) - The euro dipped on profit-taking on Monday after hitting its highest level in more than 10 days...

 

13/1/2011 – The Current Market...

posted 01/13/11

The optimism could continue containing the current market sentiment after the Japanese promises of buying European bonds this month by a successful Portuguese auction...

 

The Year 2011 Better, Stronger, and...

posted 01/11/11

Another year had passed by for the world’s largest economy, where the level of expectations was high, yet the economy failed to meet those expectations, as the...

 
 
 
 
 
 

General News

Wolverine Worldwide – Growth & Income

Wolverine Worldwide (WWW) recently reported its fifth consecutive positive earnings surprise on record quarterly revenue. Despite the strong quarter, management reiterated its revenue and EPS guidance for the remainder of...

Bank Stress Test Inconclusive.

The event of the day on Friday was the release of the European bank stress results. The European Banking Authority waited until very late in the day before publishing the results,...

Week Ahead

The Eurozone sovereign debt crisis remains in focus, with Eurozone finance ministers meeting on Sunday to discuss the next steps for Greece. All clear, for the time being. The Greek...

TGIF – Stop the Rally, We Want...

Wow, so much to talk about today. I’m going to skip quickly over poor Dominique Strauss-Kahn who is now, fairly obviously, the victim of a conspiracy to frame him. What’s...

Binary Options Fundamental Anlysis & The Week...

Economic News On the economic front, leading indicators rose more than expected in May to a record high, according to the Conference Board. Meanwhile, consumer sentiment worsened more than expected...

US ISM

The soft patch is over – the US National Manufacturing ISM index for June rose to 55.3 from 53.5 with gains in the production, new orders, and employment indices. This...

The Bank of England

There are certain things in life that we can be sure about...death..taxes and the fact that the Bank will leave rates unchanged on Thursday!! The Bank of England appears certain...

EUR: 6 Hurdles to Overcome Greek Debt...

Why has the rally in the EUR been so lackluster? Because there are a still 4 3 more hurdles to overcome before we can put the Greek debt crisis behind...

Market Sensing Slight Positives

Greece has announced its economic plan to privatize 87 billion Euros of state assets, 50 billion of which is being planned for bailing out the country until 2015 by selling...

Increased Interest Rates Await the Euro Zone

Follow through was seen into today’s European trading session with the euro and other higher yielding currencies receiving a bid. An additional Greek vote on austerity measures will come today...