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          10-year Treasury yield surges back above 4% after Powell says December rate cut far from certain
Treasury yields gained even after the Federal Reserve cut rates for a second time this year as central bank chief Jerome Powell indicated another easing in December was far from certain. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was 7 basis points higher at 4.054%. The 2-year Treasury note yield added 9 basis points to 3.582%. The 30-year bond yield rose 5 basis points […]
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          Global bonds rally as fresh trade tensions send investors flocking to safety
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. NYSE Bond yields reflect borrowing costs for the governments who issue them, but can have an effect on mortgage rates, investment returns, the wider economy and personal borrowing. Certain markets have their own domestic issues at play. An uptick in unemployment in the U.K., […]
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          How to know when it’s time to worry about the AI bubble
Wall Street is undergoing a minor AI-nxiety attack. Long-percolating concerns about the massive and perhaps undisciplined tech-company investments in artificial-intelligence infrastructure and the lavish valuations bestowed on these businesses started to boil over last week. And with it, a vigorous debate over whether a hazardous equity bubble is underway, on the way or in no […]
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          CNBC Daily Open: U.S. inflation report on Friday will tell if rate cut was a good idea
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell talks with reporters following the regular Federal Open Market Committee meetings at the Fed on July 30, 2025 in Washington, DC. Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images The U.S. personal consumption expenditures price index for August comes out Friday. The Federal Reserve will hope the report shows headline inflation is either […]
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          Here’s what happened to financial markets after Nixon pressured the Fed
Investors wondering what President Donald Trump’s move to fire Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook might mean for financial markets today can look back half a century for some insight. President Richard Nixon, aiming to clinch a second term in the White House, pressured then-Fed Chair Arthur Burns to loosen monetary policy before the 1972 election. […]
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