Treasury Yields

USD/JPY Current Price: 109.93 Fears of recession exacerbated by the coronavirus spreading through Europe. The US 10-year Treasury yield fell to a record low of 1.32%, sets nearby. USD/JPY poised to test 109.65, break below it exposes monthly low at 108.31. The USD/JPY pair fell to the 110....

USD/JPY Current Price: 110.63 Risk aversion amid spreading coronavirus backed the Japanese yen. US indexes collapsed, Treasury yields fell to multi-year lows. USD/JPY poised to extend its decline once below 110.20. The USD/JPY pair lost roughly 100 pips this Monday on the back of...

If today has a theme, it could be “follow-through.” The question going in is, can stocks pick up on the momentum where they left off late Tuesday? Though stocks were down most of the day yesterday, they clawed back to close around flat and near the day’s highs, with the Dow Jones...

To cap a week where economic data has painted a mixed picture of the U.S. economy, a widely anticipated report on the jobs market came in weaker than expected. Government nonfarm payroll data showed that the world’s largest economy added 130,000 jobs in August, well below aBriefing.com...

Treasury yields dipped lower Monday morning, with the 10-year yield falling to around 2.1 percent, its lowest level in nearly two years. The 30-year yield also dropped to 2.55 percent on fears that the trade war is taking its toll on the U.S. economy. The spread between the 10-year and 2-year yield...

Thanks in large part to declining Treasury yields and ample speculation that the Federal Reserve will not be able to raise interest rates as many times as previously planned, some luster has been restored to dividend exchange-traded funds. That theme extends to high dividend funds and newer...

In the United States, inflation, excluding energy and food costs, has been hard to come by in recent years. Inflation fans probably should curb their enthusiasm, but it is worth noting that inflation rose modestly in December and January. While it remains to be seen if data from those months mark...

Real estate investment trusts (REITs) and the corresponding exchange-traded funds faced a trying environment in 2015, as investors anticipated the Federal Reserve's first interest rate increase in nearly a decade, but that environment has rapidly changed in 2016 as investors' search for...

Speaking to Benzinga, Timothy Anderson of MND Partners commented that utility stocks have demonstrated some of the most volatility in the market as institutional accounts with actuarial commitments "scramble to make their bogey." Anderson noted that utility stocks, represented by funds like the...