Interest rates fall after the Federal Reserve keeps key lending rate at historic lows Interest rates fell in the bond market Tuesday after the Federal Reserve said it is still likely to keep a key lending rate at historic lows for an ...
Fund manager warns leveraged "locust" investors may be back in the bond market This stock-and-bond fund's annual dividend has more than doubled since 2003 under Brian McMahon. He is a co-portfolio manager and chief investment officer of Thornburg Investment Management. Q: How ...
Rates on Treasury bills at weekly auction jump to highest levels in 7 months Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills rose in Monday's auction to the highest levels in seven months. The Treasury Department auctioned $27 billion in three-month bills at a ...
BOSTON (Reuters) - Investors in February pulled an estimated $3.7 billion from U.S. stock-focused mutual funds, dashing hopes of a rebound in demand for equities, while showering $19.7 billion on taxable bond funds, according to a report from Morningstar. After investors pulled ...
China cut back its Treasury bond holdings in January but remained the top owner of US government debt, the Treasury Department said Monday. China held 889.0 billion dollars in Treasury securities at the end of January compared with 894.8 billion dollars in ...
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan Post Bank bought about 300 billion yen ($3.3 billion) in U.S. Treasuries in October-December, the first time it has purchased U.S. government debt since the start of its privatization process in October 2007, the Nikkei business daily said ...
Standard & Poor's hikes Ukraine's credit rating a notch after new government was formed Ratings agency Standard & Poor's has increased Ukraine's sovereign credit rating by one notch, saying reduced political risks after an election will help it raise money and access ...
Money fund assets fell by $36.22 billion to $3.090 trillion in latest week Total money market mutual fund assets fell by $36.22 billion to $3.090 trillion for the week, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday. Assets of the nation's retail money market ...
Portuguese debt agency says euro990 million ($1.34 billion) bond issue is oversubscribed Financially troubled Portugal raised euro990 million ($1.34 billion) Wednesday in a key bond auction that had more bids than bonds available, suggesting the government's austerity plan is easing market concerns ...
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