Markets

Bond Report: Steepening Yield Curve Slams One Of The Bond Markets Biggest Bets

One of the biggest trades in the bond market has not only hit a pause but a painful reversal after the so-called yield c... Read more

Market Extra: Brave Asset Managers Must Invest In Emerging Markets: GMOs Grantham

Over the next decade, only the truly brave will be able to keep up with their required return commitment, according to J... Read more

Bond Report: 10-year Treasury Yield Briefly Tops 2.50% After Congress Passes Tax Overhaul

Treasury prices fell, pushing up yields on Wednesday after Congress passed a sweeping tax overhaul, handing it over to P... Read more

CryptoWatch: Bitcoin Plunges More Than $2,500, Bounces Back Somewhat, As Bitcoin Cash Surges On Trading News

The price of bitcoin plunged more than 14% — more than $2,500 — late Tuesday after cryptocurrency trading site Coinb... Read more

CryptoWatch: 7 Cryptocurrencies To Watch In 2018 If Youre On The Hunt For The Next Bitcoin

Analysts pick the bitcoin rivals to read up on now: Litecoin, Monero, Neo, Cardano, Ripple, Iota and Bitcoin Cash Read more

Asia Markets: Asian Markets Quiet As Bitcoin Makes Noise

Asia-Pacific stocks didn’t move much Wednesday after modest pullbacks in the U.S. and Europe, but bitcoin had a busy m... Read more

The Wall Street Journal: Lawsuit Accusing Stock Exchanges Of Favoring High-speed Traders Can Continue

A federal appeals court said Tuesday that a lawsuit accusing stock exchanges of defrauding investors by favoring high-sp... Read more

The Wall Street Journal: Regulators Give 8 Biggest U.S. Banks Passing Grades On Living Wills

The eight largest and most complex U.S. banks avoided a major rebuke on their latest “living will” bailout-preventio... Read more

Market Snapshot: Stock Market Ends Slightly Lower; Focus Remains On Tax Package

U.S. stock-market indexes maintain modest losses on Tuesday as the House of Representatives passes the widely anticipate... Read more

Bond Report: 10-year Treasury Yield Hits 9-month High, With Tax Package In Focus

Treasury yields rose after a solid reading for housing data helped strengthen the outlook for the U.S. economy Read more

CryptoWatch: Why A Dot-com-style Collapse In Bitcoin Wont Kill Blockchain

To a lot of observers, the 2017 boom in bitcoin and other digital currencies is highly reminiscent of the dot-com era of... Read more

Key Words: Oklahoma Lawmaker On The Wager That The Republican Tax Bill Does Pay For Itself

Belief that rather than adding between $1.4 trillion and $2.2 trillion to the federal deficit the GOP tax overhaul will ... Read more

In One Chart: Apple Blows Away The Competition With This Stunning Money-making Measurement

The average American worker earns about $850 a week. Tim Cook, who reaped a reported windfall of $145 million in 2016, m... Read more

London Markets: FTSE 100 Sticks Around 6-week High, With U.S. Tax Vote On Deck

U.K. stocks edged higher Tuesday, as continued optimism over U.S. tax cuts helped British blue-chips extend gains and tr... Read more

Old Mutual To Sell Unit For £600 Million

Old Mutual PLC (OML.LN) said Tuesday that it has agreed to sell its single-strategy asset-management unit to private-equ... Read more