Wednesday, 24 April 2013 01:29
Posted by Asad Naeem
NEW YORK: US Treasuries prices were little changed on Tuesday after a brief surge on a false Twitter message from the Associated Press that said there were two explosions at the White House.The tweet, which an AP spokesman called "bogus," raised concerns of another terror attack just a week after the Boston Marathon bombs and caused a short-lived scramble for safe-haven US bonds.When the AP tweet was retracted, buying of Treasuries faded, sending prices back to little changed.In an otherwise uneventful day for the bond market, benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were down 2/32 to 102-23/32 in mid-afternoon trading to yield 1.701 percent.The 10-year yield dropped to 1.643 percent after the false AP tweet circulated among traders, hitting its lowest intraday level since Dec. 12, according to Reuters data."When you have this story print when you're at the lows of the day (in price) and it takes you back to the ...
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NEW YORK: US Treasuries prices were little changed on Tuesday after a brief surge on a false Twitter message from the Associated Press that said there were two explosions at the White House.The tweet, which an AP spokesman called "bogus," raised concerns of another terror attack just a week after the Boston Marathon bombs and caused a short-lived scramble for safe-haven US bonds.When the AP tweet was retracted, buying of Treasuries faded, sending prices back to little changed.In an otherwise uneventful day for the bond market, benchmark 10-year Treasury notes were down 2/32 to 102-23/32 in mid-afternoon trading to yield 1.701 percent.The 10-year yield dropped to 1.643 percent after the false AP tweet circulated among traders, hitting its lowest intraday level since Dec. 12, according to Reuters data."When you have this story print when you're at the lows of the day (in price) and it takes you back to the ...
NEW YORK: US government debt prices rose on Monday on news of weaker-than-expected home resales in March and the implications of waning inflation.Slower inflation causes real interest rates to rise and leaves the door open for the Federal Reserve to continue its large-scale purchases of bonds and even to increase them.Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William Dudley told a conference on transatlantic economic interdependence on Monday that the US central bank's stimulative asset-purchase ...
NEW YORK: Prices for US Treasuries added to losses on Thursday after better-than-expected data on jobless claims.Thirty-year bonds fell 13/32 to yield 3.174 percent after the data. The benchmark 10-year note slipped 7/32 to yield 1.964 percent.The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly fell to a seasonally adjusted 340,000 last week, suggesting a pick-up in the labor market recovery. Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
NEW YORK: The Federal Reserve bought $15.0 billion of agency mortgage-backed securities Feb. 14-20, less than the $20.6 billion it bought in the prior week, the New York Federal Reserve Bank said on Thursday.
The US central bank sold no mortgage securities guaranteed by Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac or the Government National Mortgage Association, or Ginnie Mae, in the latest week. It sold $1.8 billion the previous week, the New York Fed said on its Website.
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