6-month T-bill rate rises to nearly 16-year high after release of Fed minutes

The yield on the 6-month T-bill rose to an almost 16-year high on Wednesday after minutes from the Federal Reserve’s last meeting indicated that all policy makers wanted to keep hiking interest rates....

Treasury yields jump after surge in U.S. job growth

Treasury yields jumped Friday, erasing what had been weekly declines for 2- and 10-year notes, after a much stronger-than-expected U.S. January jobs report clouded investor expectations for the Federa...

Treasury yields plummet after signs of broadening weakness in economy

Friday’s raft of U.S. economic data produced a cascading drop in rates across the Treasury market, pushing the policy-sensitive 2-year and benchmark 10-year yields to their lowest levels of the new ye...

Treasury yields post record rise in worst year ‘within any of our lifetimes’ for bond investors

Treasury yields moved mostly higher in a holiday-shortened session Friday, capping a brutal, record-breaking bond-market selloff in 2022. Trading in U.S. fixed-income markets closed an hour early at 2...

U.S. stocks fall on last trading day of 2022, booking monthly losses and worst year since 2008

U.S. stocks ended lower Friday, booking their worst annual losses since 2008, as tax-loss harvesting along with anxieties about the outlook for corporate profits and the U.S. consumer took their toll....

Treasury yields end higher after U.S. inflation reading

Treasury yields ended a holiday-shortened New York trading session higher on Friday, cementing a weekly increase, after the release of the U.S. personal consumption expenditure price index, the Federa...

2-year Treasury yield reaches one-week high as traders assess likelihood of more Fed rate hikes

Treasury yields jumped on Friday, sending the 2-year rate to a one-week high, after Boston Fed President Susan Collins put another aggressive 75-basis-point rate hike on the table for December’s polic...

Why the housing market should brace for double-digit mortgage rates in 2023

Even if Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his cohorts stopped hiking policy rates soon, the 30-year fixed mortgage rate still would climb to 10%, according to Christopher Whalen, chairman of ...

‘Fragile’ Treasury market is at risk of ‘large scale forced selling’ or surprise that leads to breakdown, BofA says

The world’s deepest and most liquid fixed-income market is in big, big trouble. For months, traders, academics, and other analysts have fretted that the $23.7 trillion Treasurys market might be the so...

Why questions are swirling about who will buy more than $31 trillion of U.S. debt — and at what price

For the first time ever, U.S. national debt crossed above $31 trillion this month, at a time when the Federal Reserve is in retreat from buying government debt and foreign investors’ interest in it is...

Treasury yields pull back sharply amid concerns over Credit Suisse

Treasury yields pulled back sharply on Monday as investors assessed worries over the financial health of a large European bank and a gauge on the U.S. manufacturing sector produced the weakest reading...

2-year Treasury yield sees biggest one-day drop since July after U.S. jobs report

U.S. Treasury yields moved lower Friday, handing the 2-year rate its biggest one-day drop in more than a month, after the August nonfarm payrolls report had traders paring expectations for an aggressi...

2-year Treasury yield hits highest level since 2007 as bond selloff continues

Treasury yields continued to climb on Monday, with the 2-year reaching levels not seen since November 2007, as bonds tumbled in the wake of Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell’s hawkish remarks at ...

Stock-market investors wrestle with ‘boomflation’ after hot July jobs report

The worry instead turned to what a rip-roaring labor market and surging costs for everything means for stocks and bond portfolios, particularly if it turns into a mix of higher growth and inflation wi...

Why stocks and bonds went into relief-rally mode after Fed’s jumbo rate hike

Financial markets suffered an absolute bloodbath in the days leading up to Wednesday’s Federal Reserve decision, with stocks plunging and bond yields soaring in the wake of surprisingly hot inflation ...

Investors may be in for this rude surprise: History shows inflation can take years to return to normal even when Fed hikes above 10%

History can be a powerful tool, particularly in a high-inflation environment like this one in which no suitable economic model seems to apply. Inflation — running at 8.3% as of April, near a four-deca...

PayPal borrows $3 billion to help fund debt buyback plan

PayPal Holdings Inc. hit the market on Monday with a $3 billion corporate bond financing to help the online money-transfer and payments giant fund a $2 billion tender offer for its own debt. The four-...

Here’s how much a 40-year mortgage would save you each month vs. a 30-year loan. And the ultimate cost.

The U.S. home-financing market has been dominated by the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage loan for decades. Now some key players in the U.S. housing market think it is time to give home buyers the option o...

U.S. Treasury market plagued with illiquidity as government bonds suffer worst week in years

Signs of trouble continue to show up in the world’s largest, most liquid government-securities market as government bonds logged their worst week in years and the U.S. central bank’s interest rate hik...

S&P 500 marks 1st death cross in 2 years as investors assess Russia-Ukraine ahead of Fed decision

Dow industrials barely gained on Monday, while the S&P 500 logged its first death cross in two years and the Nasdaq Composite slumped to its lowest since December 2020, as investors monitored Russ...

Whether or not a bottom is in, here’s what will ride to the stock market’s rescue over 12 months, one strategist forecasts

So, is this it? After the powerful 2.6% rebound for the S&P 500 SPX, -0.43% on Wednesday, is the bottom in? Arguing yes is Mark Newton, head of technical strategy at Fundstrat, who notes that whil...