Bonds

It’s getting real cheap to borrow ... so why aren’t folks borrowing?

It’s getting real cheap to borrow ... so why aren’t folks borrowing?

Bond funds are bleeding value as the market adjusts to the end of quantitative easing and interest rates lurch back up to something like historical norms.

Massive IOU: Verizon Communications launched a $49 billion bond offering to help finance its $130 billion buyout of Verizon Wireless. 

Japanese stocks rose after poor quarterly economic data raised hopes of fresh economic stimulus while other Asian indexes were steadier as the yuan stabilized after last week's shock devaluation.

Attorneys say an investment firm has settled a federal lawsuit accusing it of bilking investors out of $39 million in a failed effort to build an artificial sweetener plant in Missouri.

The European Central Bank plans to start buying a type of bonds known as asset-backed securities.

Citigroup Inc. says it's been told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that the agency has completed its investigation of the bank's conduct regarding mortgage bonds and won't bring further enforcement action.

Experts applaud credit ratings competition, noting the Big Three firms dominated the ratings business for years, gobbling up about 90% of the market.

The talks could lead to a settlement worth about $6 billion with institutional investors like BlackRock and Pimco.

Legendary bond fund manager Bill Gross has filed suit against PIMCO, the giant bond fund company he founded in 1971 and left last year in a decidedly acrimonious split.

The Pimco Total Return Fund, launched by Bill Gross, has lost its title as the world's biggest bond mutual fund, following two years of withdrawals.

After Bill Gross' abrupt departure, Pimco's Total Return Fund has scaled back dramatically on its leverage, or "borrowing," to achieve financial results, FOX Business has learned.

Top brass at Pacific Investment Management Co. may have started making pleas to financial advisers around the world this week, but that doesn’t mean those advisers are listening.

Standard & Poor's owner McGraw Hill Financial posted a better-than-expected quarterly profit as it earned more from its financial information and indexes businesses.

Mohamed El-Erian will step down as chief executive and CIO of bond giant PIMCO in mid-March, Allianz said.

Goldman Sachs easily trumped Wall Street expectations in the fourth quarter even as fixed-income trading revenue slumped. 

Bank of America settled all claims with Freddie Mac arising from residential mortgages sold to the government-backed housing agency through 2009.

Moody's reported third-quarter earnings and revenue that missed expectations on Wall Street as the structured finance revenue declined. 

Goldman's profits stalled out in 3Q as weak bond-trading volumes overshadowed tumbling expenses.