U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C., U.S., April 21, 2025. Leah Millis | Reuters Yesterday’s edition of this newsletter cautioned that U.S. President Donald Trump’s desire to intervene in the Federal Reserve, as he…
U.S. Treasury yields moved lower on Thursday as investors breathed a sigh of relief after U.S. President Donald Trump enacted a 90-day tariff reprieve on most countries, reversing a sharp sell-off in bonds. At 4:50 a.m. ET, the 10-year Treasury yield was lower by over 10 basis points to 4.288%, and the 2-year Treasury yield also dropped just…
Global bond yields cratered in the wake of U.S. Donald Trump’s tariff announcement last Wednesday, as investors hunt for any safe havens amid the stock market sell-off — but economists warn the rally may not be sustainable if inflation concerns weigh. The yield on Germany’s 10-year bund — the benchmark for the euro area —…
Andrew Fox | The Image Bank | Getty Images “Dead” investors often beat the living — at least, when it comes to investment returns. A “dead” investor refers to an inactive trader who adopts a “buy and hold” investment strategy. This often leads to better returns than active trading, which generally incurs higher costs and…
Medical bottles and syringe are seen with Novo Nordisk logo displayed on a screen in the background. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Novo Nordisk‘s hopes of heralding a new era of obesity treatment with its CagriSema drug have been called into question after a series of trial results sent shares falling. Headline results from…
U.S. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell holds a press conference after the Monetary Policy Committee meeting, at the Federal Reserve in Washington, DC on March 19, 2025. Roberto Schmidt | AFP | Getty Images The U.S. Federal Reserve concluded its meeting exactly as market watchers had expected: by keeping interest rates steady. While a cut…
Spencer Platt | Getty Images Individual investors, whose assets are more tied to the stock market than ever, have abandoned their tried-and-true dip-buying mentality as the S&P 500 recently fell into a painful, 10% correction. Retail outflows from U.S. equities rose to about $4 billion over the past two weeks as tariff chaos and mounting…
Hong Kong’s stock exchange reported its highest quarterly profit in nearly four years after China’s stimulus measures boosted trading and listing volume. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images BEIJING — Mainland Chinese investors are piling into the Hong Kong stock market at record volumes as its tech-heavy Hang Seng Index trades around three-year highs. Net…
The People’s Bank of China (PBOC) building in Beijing, China, on Friday, Nov. 8, 2024. Bloomberg | Getty Images China’s sovereign bond prices fell Monday, pushing yields to their highest levels this year, as investors trimmed holdings on bets that additional fiscal spending will boost growth and push back interest rate cuts. Yields on China’s…
Employees move semiconductor testers on the assembly line of the Advantest Corp. plant in Ora, Japan on Aug. 10, 2012. Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images Asian tech and chip-related stocks fell Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump made it clear that tariffs on Mexico and Canada would go into effect as planned. Trump said the…
