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Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund, boosted U.S. Treasury debt holdings to their highest level in more than a year in April when the safe-harbor market rallied.The share of Treasury bonds in the $292.9 billion Total Return Fund (PTTRX) at Pacific Investment Management Co. was 27% at the end of April, its highest level since February 2012, compared to 21% at the end of March, according to the data released on the company's website Thursday afternoon.Including 12% in Treasury inflation-protected securities, the overall Treasury debt holdings were 39%, up from 33% from a month ago.For the first time in over a year, the share of Treasury bonds as a whole overtook mortgage-backed securities (MBS) as the largest holdings of Mr. Gross's bond fund.Mr. Gross also slightly boosted the share of MBS to 34% in April, compared to 33% in March. He reduced holdings of investment-grade corporate debt to 7% from 9% in March, while cutting non-dollar sovereign bonds in developed nations...
Treasurys fell Wednesday, pushing yields on the 10-year note to levels not seen since the Feb. 25 Italian-election turmoil, as the ADP jobs report beat expectations ...
Treasurys edged down on Tuesday, pushing yields slightly higher, after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed his support for continuing the central bank's...
Treasurys gained on Tuesday after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke reaffirmed his support for continuing the central bank's bond-buying program.Yields on the be...
Treasurys were steady on Tuesday as the market looked past Italy to Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony to Congress on monetary policy.Yields on the be...
Treasurys edged lower on Tuesday, pushing yields higher, as the market looked past Italy ahead of the Federal Reserve chairman's testimony to Congress on monetary po...
Treasurys rose Monday, pushing 10-year yields to the lowest level in more than one month, as uncertainty about the outcome of Italy's election prompted investors to ...
Treasurys reversed direction Monday, shedding losses as the Italian Senate election results proved less than clear, with a strong performance by former Prime Ministe...
Treasurys slipped on Monday ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's semi-annual testimony to Congress beginning on Tuesday and the impending sequester.Yield...
Treasurys edged higher on Friday ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's scheduled testimony to the Senate Banking Committee next week.Yields on the benchma...
Treasurys edged higher on Friday as the European Central Bank said commercial banks would repay less than expected of the cheap loans borrowed from the central bank ...
Treasury prices remained higher Thursday after a U.S. auction of inflation-protected securities on a day where weak economic data combined with concerns over whether...
Treasury prices rose Thursday as weak economic data combined with concerns over whether Washington will be able to avoid automatic spending cuts in March.Yields on t...
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Apple Inc. priced a supersized $17 billion corporate bond deal Tuesday, the largest ever for a nonfinancial U.S. corporate issuer.The bond issuance comes in six part...
Apple priced its $17 billion bond offering Tuesday, which it issued in 6 parts, according to Austin Berkelhammer, head trader at HFP Capital Markets LLC. The 3-year ...
Treasurys weakened overnight Wednesday alongside German bunds as equities rallied in anticipation of a potential interest-rate cut from the European Central Bank. Th...
Treasurys reversed slight gains from earlier Thursday to end the day roughly level following an uninspiring auction of 30-year bonds."It wasn't a great auction. It w...
Bond-market heavyweight Bill Gross has warmed up to longer-dated Treasury bonds again after snubbing the securities for months, the latest sign of how the Bank of Ja...
Treasurys fell Wednesday, pushing yields on the 10-year note to the highest levels since Feb. 22, as economic data pointed to a recovering economy.The U.S. added 198...
