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In 2014, Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 disappeared from radar and a massive search for the missing aircraft ensued. For two years, scientists used sonar to map the seafloor where the plane was thought to have crashed, and then search for any remnants. Nothing was found and the search was officially called off this past […]
The US Treasury complex is surging after both retail sales and CPI fell short of estimates. Post-data buying has yields down almost 7 basis points in the belly of the curve. Retail sales fell 0.3% month-over-month in May, missing the flat reading that was anticipated. CPI fell 0.1% MoM and rose 1.9% on year-vover-year basis. Here’s […]
EVERY year it seems that analysts and investors play a ritual game. They begin by asserting that government bonds are terrible value and that, accordingly, this must be the year when yields will rise (and prices fall). And then they get mugged by reality. The same pattern seems to be playing out in 2017. Back […]
Enlarge / Volkswagen AG Turbocharged Direct Injection (TDI) vehicles sit parked in a storage lot at San Bernardino International Airport (SBD) in San Bernardino, California, U.S., on Wednesday, April 5, 2017. Volkswagen agreed last year to buy back about 500,000 diesels that it rigged to pass US emissions tests if it can’t figure out a […]
Getty Images Chinese government bond yields have surged to their highest level in almost two years as tighter financial regulations rattle investors. The 10-year government bond yield soared to 3.536%, the highest since late 2015. via Investing.com The nation’s banking, insurance and securities trading regulators last month issued directives aimed at curbing everything from excessive […]
Henny Ray Abrams/AP US stock futures and 10-year treasury yields have fallen sharply, reacting to news that the United states has launched over 50 Tomahawk missiles from warships stationed in the Mediterranean targeting a Syrian airfield. The attack followed a chemical attack that killed at least 80 people in the northwestern part of Syria on […]
AMERICA may be the world’s largest economy, but these days its government pays more than many others to borrow money. Its ten-year bond yields are higher than those in Britain, France, Singapore and even Italy. The gap between American and German ten-year yields has been above two percentage points. For much of the past 25 […]
Megan Geuss HAWTHORNE, Calif.—On a hot, Southern California Sunday, 27 teams gathered to show off their model Hyperloop pods. But only three won a chance to load their pods into a low-pressure environment created in a 0.75 mile (1.25 km) Hyperloop test tube built by SpaceX next to the company’s headquarters. Those teams—from Massachusetts Institute […]
