Bond Trade In The International Markets News

With sparse data, focus returns to Europe

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe will again be at the center of investors' focus this week as the U.S. earnings season passes the halfway mark and there is little on the economic calendar to give the market direction. Economic data expected this week includes weekly initial jobless claims, the Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan's consumer sentiment index and international trade figures. Improving ...

Debt crisis: as it happened, February 3, 2012

The FTSE 100 has closed at a seven-month high after US data showing more US people are in work boosted global markets, while Greece announces it is to auction €625m of Treasury bills next week.

Huggies Price Cut Shows Why Bond Market Backs Bernanke QE3

Procter & Gamble Co.’s failure to raise the price of Cascade dishwashing soap shows why investors are buying Treasuries at the lowest yields in history, giving the Federal Reserve more scope to boost the economy.

ETF Insider: Make Way For The Bulls

Our bearish suspicions proved incorrect last week as bullish euphoria on Wall Street was bolstered by a string of better-than-expected economic reports. On the home front, construction spending, motor ...

Asia Markets: Australia slips, Japan ends flat in thin trade

Australian shares slip while Japanese stocks end little changed, with several exporters rising as investors maintain their recent positivity in a holiday-thinned market.