U.S. stock markets are poised for a subdued open on Monday. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg Text size U.S. stocks are set for a lower open on Monday. On Sunday night, Dow Jones Industrial Average futures fell...
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Treasuries’ Biggest Foreign Buyers to Return on Weakening Yen
(Bloomberg) — Japan’s giant investors look set to bet on yen weakness continuing and boost their purchases of Treasuries over the rest of the year. Most Read from Bloomberg That’s the view of mo...
Stocks, Treasuries Sink on Inflation, Policy Risks: Markets Wrap
(Bloomberg) — Stocks and U.S. equity futures fell along with Treasuries Monday amid heightened worries about inflation risks and tightening financial conditions. A gauge of the dollar climbed. M...
12 Companies Keep Close to $700 Million in Ethereum in Treasuries – Coinotizia
During the last year, there’s been a lot of discussion concerning bitcoin treasuries or public firms putting bitcoin on their balance sheets. However, the leading crypto asset by market valuation is n...
12 Companies Keep Close to $700 Million in Ethereum in Treasuries – Altcoins Bitcoin News
During the last year, there’s been a lot of discussion concerning bitcoin treasuries or public firms putting bitcoin on their balance sheets. However, the leading crypto asset by market valuation is n...
Why Was the Stock Market Down Today? A Fed Official’s Speech Tanked the Market.
Text size Federal Reserve Gov. Lael Brainard said she expects policy to return “to a more neutral position later this year.” Drew Angerer/Getty Images Tech stocks and bond markets both sold off on Tue...
Real Yields Show Where the Stock Market Is Really Headed
Text size No one knows if even an accelerated pace of rate increases is enough to eliminate inflation—or what it will do to stocks. Spencer Platt/Getty Images The stock market’s greatest fear is comin...
Treasuries Are Getting Crushed. It Might Continue for a Long Time.
Text size Photograph by Alex Wong/Getty Images The price of Treasury bonds has plummeted recently. That could be just the start of a painful road ahead for bond investors. The price of bonds decline ...
Inverted Yield Curve Signals a Recession. A Different Curve Tells a More Upbeat Story.
Text size The Federal Reserve, led by Jerome Powell, raised interest rates for the first time since 2018 earlier this month. Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images The most-watched yield curve is close to...
Treasuries Are Selling Off. Blame Powell’s Comments on Half-Point Rate Hikes.
Fed chief Jerome Powell, shown Monday at a conference in Washington, D.C., said ‘nothing’ would prevent the central bank from raising rates by a half-point at a coming meeting if needed. S...
Treasuries Stumble Near 2% at Short End Even With a Hawkish Fed
(Bloomberg) — Momentum toward higher yields has stalled in the world’s biggest bond market, underscoring how rapidly traders priced in the hawkish message delivered by the Federal Reserve. Most ...
DAO Treasuries Top $8.2 Billion on Ethereum, $1.3B on Solana: DeepDAO
Interest in decentralized autonomous organizations, better known as DAOs, has seen a sharp increase since the rise and fall of ConstitutionDAO, a group that raised $45 million in ETH last year in a fa...
The Market Rose on the Fed’s Rate Hikes. What It Might Be Missing.
Text size Fed Chair Jerome Powell told reporters Wednesday the central bank had the tools to bring inflation down. Photographer: Julia Nikhinson/Bloomberg It may not rank with the “whatever it takes” ...
Corporate treasuries: These mining outfits hodl the most bitcoin
Miners are at the core of the Bitcoin network, providing security to the whole ecosystem of users, businesses, and hodlers. Bitcoin (BTC) mining companies aim to serve as bitcoin investment vehicles, ...
Will US Treasuries Role Change Forever Amid Ukraine?
With the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, another asset has surprisingly become weaponized: the US Treasuries. As such, going forward some thought should be given about their role and thei...
From Nickel to Oil and Stocks, Markets Are in Turmoil. Are They Broken?
Wall Street has been treated to intense volatility in the period since Moscow launched its invasion of Ukraine, with tough sanctions on Russia—a major producer of critical commodities—sending the mark...
Apple Stock Has Had a Tough Year. That Could Soon Change.
Text size Tech stocks like Apple have had a tough start to the year, but a turnaround could be coming. Sascha Steinbach/Getty Images for Apple Apple stock and the rest of big tech have faced a difficu...
Why Did Mortgage Rates Fall Again? How Ukraine and Russia Affect Housing.
Text size The average rate on a 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 3.76% this week. Dreamstime.com Mortgage rates fell for a second consecutive week after Russia’s invasions of Ukraine triggered a fl...
DAO Treasuries Tumble $3.1 Billion Over Past Month
The total value of assets under management held by decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) has fallen by $3.1 billion in the past month—with more than a third of that sum in just the past week. ...
Scorned Treasury Bonds Could Be Good Bet After Fed Boosts Rates
Rarely has there been such unanimity of opinion among both Federal Reserve officials and the cadre of analysts who track and try to predict their future moves. Monetary policy will be tightened with a...
What Will Stocks Do if War—or Peace—Erupts in Ukraine?
Text size A Ukrainian guard at a checkpoint on the border with Russia. There could be a financial toll, as well as a heavy human one, if the Kremlin launches an invasion. Vyacheslav Madiyevskyy/Ukrinf...
Inflation, Interest-Rate Jitters, and Putin Are Brewing a Fierce Storm for the Stock Market
Text size A Ukrainian soldier in the Kharkiv region near the Russian border. Will Putin pull the trigger on an invasion? Sergey Bobok/AFP/Getty Images We were waist deep in the Big Muddy, and the big ...
The Jobs Report Reveals a Booming Labor Market. Here’s Where Interest Rates Are Headed.
Text size President Joe Biden speaking about the January jobs report. Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Good news for Main Street, not so good news for Wall Street. Once again, a booming labor market is like...
Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.
“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...
When Is the Next Recession Coming? Here’s How to Time It
Fake it ‘til you make it might work in Silicon Valley. It’s a less practical strategy for the Federal Reserve, which looks ready to compound one mistake with another. The central bank’s statement on W...
Here’s What to Watch as the Fed Gets Set to Raise Rates and Shrink Balance Sheet
Anxiety is high as the Federal Reserve wraps its first meeting of the year. Will the central bank abruptly end its emergency bond-buying program ahead of schedule? Are more rate increases in store, an...
Inverted Yield Curve Could Be Sending a Bogus Recession Warning
No topic has dominated the investment conversation lately as much as the yield curve. While it’s an arcane matter to most folks, we in the financial sphere have been thrown into a tizzy by this indica...