Spending Measure Passes, But Remaining Debt Ceiling Issue and Taper Talk Sink Markets… The House passed a continuing resolution to authorize spending through December 3, avoiding a government shutdown ...
Central banks have a lot of influence on investors, markets and economies.
For the last year or so, the Federal Reserve has been purchasing $120 billion of bonds every month to ensure United States markets remained liquid and interest rates remained low during the pandemic. ...
There was a gappers’ block in financial markets last week as equity investors slowed to see what the United States Treasury bond market was up to.
U.S. Treasury bonds rallied last week. Yields on 10-year Treasuries dropped from 1.43 percent at the start of the week to 1.27 percent on Thursday. The rally was quite a surprise, reported Randall W. ...
Week In Review – February 10 2020
The U.S. Created 225,000 Jobs in December as Unemployment Ticked Up to 3.6%… The number of jobs beat the estimate of 165,000, and the totals for November and December were revised modestly higher, up ...
Week In Review – January 21 2020
The U.S. and China Signed Phase 1 of Trade Deal... The U.S. will restrain from more tariffs and the Chinese will better protect intellectual property and buy more U.S. goods and services. What it ...