Mobeen Tahir, associate director of research at WisdomTree, told CNBC's "Squawk Box Europe" on Friday that it was important to put the rise in Treasury yields in perspective. "We're talking about yields rising from levels so low that a year ago it would have been inconceivabl...
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No, the US cannot default on China’s holdings of its Treasuries. That alone would be a larger threat to the reserve currency status than anything anybody else could do, other then nuclear war. But at the same time, China cannot dump its Treasury holdings. because that would hurt … China...
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hobbling along a 26-year low for the past four quarters, according to the IMF’s COFER data released today. Dollar-denominated foreign exchange reserves are Treasury securities, US corporate bonds, US mortgage-backed securities, and other USD-denominated assets that are h...
Constant threats of retaliation from senators, such as Schumer, treasury secretary, secretary of state, Obama, Romney and the others fill the prime time TV news programs and Sunday political talk shows. But China doesn’t want any of this or shall we say that “中國不吃這一套.” China had...
US Treasury yields inched slightly higher across the curve with data continuing to underscore strength in the economy. Preliminary Durable Goods Orders indicated a 2.6% jump in March, higher than expectations of 2.5% and the prior 0.7% reading. The preliminary Capital Goods Orders reading rose 0.2...
Regulators are especially concerned about the growth of one strategy known as the basis trade, which involves the use of leverage to profit from the price gap between Treasury futures and the underlying cash market. Borrowing in the repurchase market using US Treasuries as collateral has soared in...
Treasury yields fell on Wednesday after rekindled trade uncertainty fueled investor demand for safer assets like U.S. debt.