May 8, 2024
Investors

U.S. Treasury yieldsas investors weigh interest rate path ahead

U.S. Treasury yields fell slightly on Thursday as investors looked to fresh economic data and comments from Federal Reserve officials as they weighed the outlook for interest rates. At 4:27 a.m. ET, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was down by over one basis point to 4.5690%. The 2-year Treasury yield was last at 4.9198%

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Funds

SEC set to force hedge funds, high-frequency traders to register

The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to impose new rules that would require many private funds to register with the agency as so-called dealers, a move that regulators say will help them better monitor a sometimes wobbly market for U.S. government debt. When firms that deal Treasury bonds register with the SEC “they become

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Investors

investors digest Fed rate decision, policy guidance

U.S. Treasury yields were mixed on Thursday as investors digested the latest interest rate decision from the Federal Reserve and clues about the path ahead for rate cuts. At 4:29 a.m. ET, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was down by over one basis points to 3.9462%, remaining below the 4% mark it had fallen

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Investors

investors await key data, Fed meeting

U.S. Treasury yields declined on Monday as investors looked ahead to a week of key economic data and the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate decision of the year. At 4:09 a.m. ET, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was down by over five basis points to 4.1065%. The 2-year Treasury yield was last at around

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Investors

10-year Treasury yield passes 1.5% as investors digest the jobs data beat

Treasury yields continued to edge higher on early Friday as investors digested the latest jobs data and comments by officials of the Federal Reserve. Weekly jobless claims surprised economists Thursday by coming in at their lowest level since September 2022, in a further indication of the strength of the U.S. jobs market. The yield on

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Investors

U.S. Treasury yields: investors weigh inflation outlook

U.S. Treasury yields fell on Wednesday as investors considered what could be ahead for inflation and how this could affect interest rates and the overall economy. At 4:34 a.m. ET, the yield on the 10-year Treasury was down by more than two basis points to 3.9886% after hovering around the 4% mark throughout the beginning

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Investors

Investors poured cash into these fixed income ETFs in 2023

The Federal Reserve’s monetary policy set the tone for the fixed income world in 2023 – right down to which exchange traded funds investors picked to take advantage of higher interest rates. The central bank’s rate-hiking campaign, which began in March 2022, resulted in the benchmark fed funds rate reaching a range of 5.25% to

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