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Recent hints of possible relaxing of the Federal Reserve's quantitative easing program has roiled global and domestic markets recently, and investors need to get their portfolios prepared for a possible pulling of the punch bowl.After years of flooding the market with money from its massive bond-buying program and keeping interest rates at record lows, many experts expect the central bank to start tapering its efforts and start reducing its balance sheet amid signs of a slowly recovering economy.While most experts don't expect policymakers to announce any QE narrowing at Wednesday's two-day meeting conclusion, Fed chief Ben Bernanke told Congress in his semiannual testimony in May the Fed would start considering it over the next several meetings. Wall Street didn't like that idea of losing its backstop and the stock has been more volatile ever since. Treasury yields crept above 2% for the first time since March."I would expect tapering to come in October -- that gives Bernanke enough ...
Former Reagan White House budget director David Stockman sounds off on the Federal Reserve.
Money managers touted the advantages of non-agency mortgage securities and bank loans on Thursday on expectations that housing prices will accelerate and interest ra...
The Treasury Department sold $13 billion in 30-year bonds Thursday at a yield of 3.355%, the highest yield since March 2012. Bidders offered to buy 2.47 times the am...
Harvard professor Jeffrey Frankel on the state of the bond market and expected market movement.
LPL Financial Fixed Income Investment Strategist Anthony Valeri and FXCM Senior Currency Strategist Kristian Kerr debate the outlook for the bond market .
The Treasury Department sold $21 billion in 10-year notes Wednesday at a yield of 2.209%, the highest yield since 2011. Bidders offered to buy 2.53 times the amount ...
‘Fate of the States’ author Meredith Whitney on the states with the biggest budget crises and the ones with a positive outlook.
The Treasury Department sold $32 billion in 3-year notes Tuesday at a yield of 0.581%, the highest yield since July 2011. Bidders offered to buy 2.95 times the amoun...
Euro Pacific Capital’s Peter Schiff on the pullback in gold and bond trends.
European shares hit six-week lows on Tuesday on concerns the phase of plentiful central bank support for markets is coming to an end, as the European Central Bank fa...
Bank of Japan Governor Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank will consider fresh steps to calm markets if borrowing costs spike again in the future, but the central ...
Here is the ETF Professor's ETF Watch List for Tuesday, June 11, 2013.Keep an eye on the Guggenheim Solar ETF (NYSE:TAN).Give the iShares Dow Jones Select Dividend I...
Patti Ann Browne wraps up the court proceedings in the George Zimmerman trial where 40 jurors have bee selected for a second round of questioning
FBN's Charlie Gasparino breaks down how Detroit's recovery plan could impact the muni- bond market .
So much anticipation for a Federal Reserve Board statement not likely to be markedly different from any so far released in 2013.The Federal Open Markets Committee, w...
More investors raised their positions in longer-dated U.S. Treasuries holdings in the latest week in advance of the Federal Reserve's two-day policy meeting, accordi...
On Monday, gold ( NYSEARCA:GLD ) futures for August delivery, the most active contract, dipped $4.50 to close at $1,383.10 per ounce, while silver ( NYSEARCA:SLV ) f...
Guggenheim Partners CIO Scott Minerd argues against investing in Treasurys.
For the better part of the past two decades, the dormant stock market and lifeless economy of Japan had been a virtual nonfactor for U.S. investors.That's a stunning...
