Bonds
The bond venue using blockchain technology to plug the leaks
Large asset managers including Fidelity have given their backing to a new corporate bond trading platform that aims to stop news of big orders leaking into the market, which can move prices against investors and increase their trading costs. LedgerEdge, which is due to launch in Europe in the third quarter of 2020, uses distributed …
10-year Treasury yields will break out of slump in weeks: Wells Fargo
The 10-year Treasury Note yield may be on the verge of breaking out of its slump. After stabilizing over the past several weeks, Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher predicts the current risk backdrop will re-energize yields in the coming weeks. He lists the Federal Reserve’s high level of comfortableness surrounding rising inflation, the massive amount …
Treasury auctions are normally mundane affairs, but Wednesday’s could make or break the stock market
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Stock traders don’t normally talk about bond auctions, but all this week the 10-year Treasury auction that will happen on Wednesday has been the main subject of conversation. “It’s been a long time since stock traders have cared about bond auctions,” Matt Maley …
Vampire bats ‘French kiss with blood’ to form lasting bonds
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Vampire bats are actually rather friendly – to each other at least Vampire bats establish friendships by sharing regurgitated blood with their neighbours in a “kind of horrifying French kiss”, a new study says. Researchers observing the mammals said their sharing behaviours appeared to be an important aspect of …
Italian Bonds, Stocks Surge on Report of ECB Aid Preparation By Investing.com
© Reuters. By Geoffrey Smith Investing.com – Italian bonds and stocks surged in late trading in Europe on Wednesday after a report suggesting that eurozone governments were preparing an assistance program for Italy allowing the European Central Bank to intervene more actively to support local markets. Bloomberg reported that eurozone leaders were looking at the …
What a ‘no-deal’ U.S.-China trade scenario would mean for stocks and bonds
Imagine there’s no trade deal and that the U.S.-China battle is left to rumble on through most of next year instead. That scenario is one that stock-market participants must now debate as equities tumbled Tuesday after President Donald Trump indicated he’s in no hurry to complete any accord with Beijing and that it might be …
The battle to break plastic’s bonds
Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The new process turns polyethylene into motor oil When Kenneth Poeppelmeier opened the reactor vessel in his lab and saw liquid, he said it was a real “eureka moment”. “All of us were so excited,” he told BBC News. Prof Poeppelmeier and his colleagues at Northwestern University in Illinois, …
Why bonds still matter in a low interest world
Bonds in a diversified portfolio offer a valuable safe harbour by providing a dampener on the volatile ride that sharemarkets can deliver. But what about when interest rates fall, fall some more and then, in some parts of the world, hit zero or even go into negative territory? Do bonds still have a role or …
5 big risks that the world’s fragile economy doesn’t need right now
It’s now more than 10 years since the subprime mortgage crisis in the U.S. forced banks around the world to stop lending to each other as fears rose over the unknown quality of balance sheets. Within months, factory output and trade collapsed, forcing unemployment to rise quickly. While central banks and lawmakers acted to oil …