Before joining TheStreet.com, Gregg Greenberg was a writer and segment producer for CNBC's Closing Bell. He previously worked at FleetBoston and Lehman Brothers in their Private Client Services divisions, covering high net-worth individuals and midsize hedge funds. Greenberg attended New York Univer...
BEIJING — The market for initial public offerings in Hong Kong is set to improve significantly over the next five years, starting in the second half of this year, George Chan, global IPO leader at EY, told CNBC in an interview Wednesday. "I think it will take a couple years to...
It’s hard to anticipate either in this graph. Bar a blip during the financial crisis, the last time the five-year gilt yield outpaced rental yields was the early 1990s. As interest yields fell, the buy-to-let boom took off. True, a recession and/or lower inflation bringing interest ra...
economy next year and what has the greatest potential to boost business in 2013? 2. What is in store for interest rates in 2013? CRAMER: I think rates can go much higher. Perhaps as much as 3.75 percent for the 30-year treasury. KERNEN: Like watching grass dry, or paint grow. ...
Another competitor to bank deposits has been the surging yields on U.S. Treasury securities. As we reported in May,Americans Stampeded into TreasuryDirect Last Year, Opening Almost 3 Million New Accounts to Capture Rising Yields on Savings Bonds and Treasurys. ...
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield slid to 1.47%, from Friday’s close of 1.50%. Two weeks ago the 2-year Treasury note was higher than the 10-year, a worrying signal that investors are less willing to risk their money on a long-term debt instrument. Known as a yield curve inversio...
Treasury bonds.However, the yield of US Treasury bonds rose on Friday. The possible explanation includes profit taking after last week's strong trend, or as the third largest US bond buyer after the Federal Reserve and China, and Japan will no longer be generous enough to buy US Treasury ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell last week flagged multiple interest rate increases this year. The dollar index rose during Asian trading, coming close to a 22-month high as the rate-sensitive short term U.S. Treasury yields rose, but it then edged lower as European markets opened. ...
"Dividend yield on the S&P utilities right now is 3.66 percent, which looks a lot better than the 10-year Treasury at 2.61 percent," Stoltzfus said. He said he does see some value in the older tech names, likeMicrosoft, and he rated it "market weight." "If you look at the broad ...
"The issues are trust and confidence, which doesn't necessarily cost the country much," says Kurt Karl, chief economist at Swiss Re. "The president has to take charge, along with the secretary of the Treasury, as well as working with the chairman of the Fed and the regulatory authorities...