Treasury yields carved out another round of three-year highs on Friday, with the 2-year rate posting its biggest five-week gain in more than a decade, as investors continued to assess the Federal Reserve’s likely policy path. What are yields doing? …
U.S. stock futures pointed to a second day of declines on Wednesday, ahead of the release of the Federal Reserve’s plan to reverse the size of its $9 trillion balance sheet. What’s happening Futures on the Dow Jones Industrial Average …
Treasury yields edged lower Wednesday, pulling back slightly from levels last seen in 2019, as investors assessed the Federal Reserve’s policy path and monitored developments in the Russia-Ukraine war. What’s driving yields? The yield on the 10-year Treasury note TMUBMUSD10Y, …
Treasury yields continued climbing on Tuesday, hitting their highest levels since mid-2019, a day after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell said policy makers could deliver benchmark interest rate hikes bigger than a quarter percentage point if needed to rein in …
Treasury yields were mixed Friday, but posted their biggest two-week gains in years, as investors monitored developments in the Russia-Ukraine war and continued to digest the Federal Reserve’s efforts to hike rates through 2023. Meanwhile, the widely followed spread between …
Who’s afraid of a hawkish Federal Reserve? Apparently not stock-market investors, who sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average up more than 500 points on the day after an initial dip into negative territory after the central bank delivered a well-expected …
Treasury yields were climbing on Wednesday as investors held out some hope that a resolution of hostilities, now in the second week, in the Ukraine could soon be achieved. Yields for U.S. government debt were little affected by a lackluster …
Is it time to bail out of stocks and bonds? This isn’t the market that investors likely signed up for back in 2021 when shares in GameStop Corp. GME, +4.69% and movie chain AMC Entertainment Holdings AMC, +3.72% were headed …
NEW YORK (Project Syndicate)—Rising inflation in the United States and around the world is forcing investors to assess the likely effects on both “risky” assets (generally stocks) and “safe” assets (such as U.S. Treasury bonds). The traditional investment advice is to allocate …
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