The broader economic picture has also lost some of its shine since the end of last year. The Commerce Department revised first-quarter GDP growth downward to 1.3%, a notable decrease from the initial estimate of 1.6%. And probably the most important part of the read was the reduction of co...
Traders work in the ten-year U.S. Treasury Note options pit at the Chicago Board of Trade in Chicago, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Nearly 70 percent of respondents believe the Fed will launch a so-calledOperation Twist, in which it buys longer-dated Treasury bonds in ...
David M. Solomon, Goldman Sachs: Comfortable, engaging, approachable, down to earth; warmest presentation of the group; equally at home with Treasury secretaries or building custodians; talks Libor or NFL playoffs; collar does look a bit trapped and while spacing is fine, font differential ...
Ali Khan, Dean of the University of Nebraska's College of Public Health, and a 23-year veteran of the CDC, has traveled the globe investigating infectious diseases like SARS and Ebola. As part CNBC’s “Healthy Returns: The Path Forward” series, he shares the lessons that past outbreaks ...
BECKY: If you had to make a guess right now, would you guess that the ten-year would end the year above or below the 3 percent? BUFFETT: I don't think about that. If you told me I had to pick a figure, I would pick higher. watch now VIDEO02:13 Buffett: No desire to go to...
up to around 344 or so on the 30-year treasury. That makes sense to pause there if you look at the charts and the way the market is behaving and you think about the trends that are underneath the bond market, it wouldn't be surprising at all to see the ...
do— I— you know, when you get— when you have interest rates down to— to zero, not only here but— in the main— in the major com— countries in Europe and— and you have the— you have a 15-year treasury inflation— protected, so called TIPS, security selling at a negative ...
brought in all the Treasury officials, and we went through the data, but we spent the first half of the first day going through economic history.And that's when we decided to act on financial confidence, provided a guarantee for all Australian savings deposits, a guarantee for all Au...
Treasury savings account. By the way, pretty amazing policy. She could have sold ten years for under 1 percent during this time. Instead, she runs down the Treasury savings account. So all of that has mass liquidity shrinkage, ...
LESLIE PICKER: So, in terms of value in the treasury market, do you think they've gotten cheap enough to present a buying opportunity? Jeff Gundlach tweeting yesterday that he thinks so. DAN IVASCYN: We do. And where -- we've been, you ...