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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields rise on hopes for a vaccine
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U.S. Treasury yields rose last week, as investors expressed optimism regarding developing a COVID-19 vaccine. The first 20-year Treasury issue in decades was auctioned on Wednesday, with the issue’s yield ending the week slightly lower.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields decline on dismal consumer data
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Treasury yields fell last week, led by longer maturities. Markets focused on a record monthly decline in core consumer goods, despite better-than-expected sentiment and manufacturing data.
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Weekly Wire: It’s always darkest before the dawn
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It is one thing to understand we are living through an unprecedented, pandemic driven economic downturn, and all together another to learn the US unemployment rate is 14.7% and that 20.5 million of our fellow Americans lost their jobs in April.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yield curve steepens amid risk-friendly sentiment
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10- and 30-year Treasury yields rose last week while shorter maturity rates fell, steepening the Treasury yield curve.
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Amid the bear market: 10 themes to consider
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U.S. stocks peaked on 19 February, then plummeted in the deepest and fastest decline to a bear market in history. Last week, prices rebounded sharply, as the S&P 500 Index experienced its largest weekly gain since 1938, up over 10%.1 At this point, we expect economic data will decline sharply, but we also think we’ve already seen the primary low for this
bear market. Clarity will take time to emerge, but we see opportunities
at depressed prices.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields plunge as coronavirus fears intensify
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U.S. Treasury yields fell to record lows last week, led by shorter maturities. The yield curve steepened as a result.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields rise slightly, with all eyes on the coronavirus
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U.S. Treasury yields rose slightly last week, led by the short end of the yield curve. Yields were pushed higher over optimism about the containment of the coronavirus in China. Market expectations for Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cuts in 2020 continue to hover around 1.5 cuts, with the first rate reduction anticipated in September.
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Treasury yields rise on global health optimism
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U.S. Treasury yields rose last week, led by 5-year maturities. Investors were optimistic over Chinese efforts to contain the coronavirus, along with stronger-than-expected U.S. economic data, pushing yields higher and prices down. Market expectations for Federal Reserve (Fed) rate cuts in 2020 fluctuated during the week, ending at approximately 1.5 cuts through the remainder of the year.