Potential signs of trouble are popping up again in the form of tighter conditions in short-term funding markets, which act as the indoor plumbing of the financial system, and this may require the Federal Reserve to take action relatively soon...
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After a rough start to 2025 that saw the dollar tally its worst first-half performance in a calendar year since at least the early 1970s, the greenback has been rising steadily since the Federal Reserve started cutting interest rates again in September...
Signs of consternation over President Donald Trump’s most recent attack against the Federal Reserve became more evident on Wednesday after the 30-year Treasury yield briefly inched toward 5% in a warning about the threat of future inflation...
The U.S. bond market sold off on Tuesday in a manner that tends to spell fresh trouble for many stock investors...
U.S. regulators took their first concrete steps on Wednesday toward deregulating banks in a way that is seen as likely to have big implications for the Treasury market, investors and the broader financial market...
Investor appetite for U.S. government debt continued to hold up on Thursday, as demonstrated by the results of a $22 billion auction of 30-year Treasury bonds that came just one day after a shockingly strong $39 billion 10-year Treasury auction...
Investors are again reassessing one of the bond market’s premier reflation trades -- the curve steepener -- as expectations for growth and inflation perk up at a clip that was hard to imagine just a few months ago.