Minneapolis Federal Reserve President Neel Kashkari said Wednesday that price growth remained a concern despite the latest data coming in cooler than economists predicted.
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Investors were rattled this week as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield soared to its highest level since 2007, but sticky inflation is just one of the factors behind this latest surge.
New York Federal Reserve President John Williams said Wednesday that the recent surge in Treasury yields is the product of a strong economy, not market dysfunction.
BEIJING — The U.S. is threatening to cut businesses that help Iran evade sanctions off from the American financial system. It puts China's banks in an uncomfortable position: Beijing can reject the demands, but its biggest lenders still have strong incentives to preserve access to U.S. dollars.
BEIJING — Chinese government bonds can play an important role in portfolio diversification as they are likely to continue behaving differently from other countries' debt, strategists say.
There's something telling in how the smart money on Wall Street has started to think about socialism. The moral of the story isn't really about socialism, though, but about the very real pain in store for American households from the bond market if the actually-in-charge capitalists don't get their act together.