by News Feed Editor | Feb 2, 2023 | Stock Market
Bonds held onto their gains on Thursday, a day after a press conference held by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell convinced traders the rate-hike cycle was nearing an end.What’s happening The yield on the 2-year Treasury TMUBMUSD02Y, 4.120% fell 1 basis point to...
by News Feed Editor | Jul 25, 2022 | Stock Market
With inflation pressures showing no signs of abating, economists see the Federal Reserve on auto-pilot this week, delivering a 0.75 percentage point rate hike to push its benchmark rate up to 2.25 — 2.5%. The expected move will put the pace of Fed tightening at the...
by News Feed Editor | Jun 16, 2022 | Stock Market
Yields on 2- through 30-year Treasurys moved lower on Thursday, as investors flocked to government bonds and U.S. stocks buckled under the Federal Reserve’s biggest interest rate hike in 28 years on Wednesday. What yields are doing The yield on the 10-year Treasury...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 25, 2024 | Politics
PABy Chris MasonPolitical editor, BBC NewsIt has felt like a week where politics has notched up a gear. Again. The local, mayoral and police and crime commissioner elections in England and Wales are a week away.And the general election is imminent too.Quite how...
by News Feed Editor | Apr 19, 2024 | Religion
Melanie Nichols, a florist instructor from Troy, North Carolina, leads a flower arrangement class, Saturday, April 13, 2024, at Randall by the River in Norwood, North Carolina. (RNS photo/Yonat Shimron)NORWOOD, N.C. (RNS) — With pruning shears in hand, 13 women gazed...