Benchmark Treasury Yields Fall as Fed Rate Decision Looms
Benchmark Treasury yields headed down Friday as the Federal Open Market Committee is scheduled to meet next week to decide on what…
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U.S. Close to Moving Forward on NAFTA Deal without Canada
The United States and Mexico may be moving forward on a revised North American Free Trade Agreement deal without Canada, according to…
Dow, S&P 500 Reach Record Levels
Just when trade war fears looked like they were creeping back into the U.S. capital markets, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and…
Two-Year Treasury Note Reaches a Decade High
While trade fears seemed to ease out of U.S. equities, bond prices were under pressure as the yields went higher across the…
Dow Climbs Over 200 Points as Trade Wars Fears Ease
Trade war fears from the tariff-for-tariff tradeoff between the United States and China seemed to ease as the Dow Jones Industrial Average…
Treasury Yields Rise Amid U.S.-China Tariff Tennis Match
The latest U.S.-China tariffs have been akin to a tennis match as it took less than 24 hours for China to volley…
China Responds to Latest Tariffs with $60B of their own on U.S. Goods
It took less than 24 hours for China to respond to the latest salvo of tariffs fired off by U.S. President Donald…
Trump Imposes 10% Tariffs on Chinese Goods, Increases to 25% by Year’s End
U.S. President Donald Trump is moving forward with imposing a 10% tariff on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods that includes a…
Trump Ready to Commence with $200B Tariffs on Chinese Goods
U.S. President Donald Trump is ready to commence with an imposition of $200 billion worth of tariffs on Chinese goods despite scheduled…
Are Semiconductors Poised to Thrive Into Q4?
Another round of tariffs, another handful of industries starting to feel the heat from the President Trump’s “America first” approach to achieving…
China Awaits More US Tariffs
The US is expected to announce the imposition of another round of tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. US President…
U.S. Trade Deficit Reaches 3-Year High
The U.S. trade deficit widened in July, effectively reaching its highest gap in the past three years. The Commerce Department reported that the…
Automated Trading Could Spur Next Financial Crisis
Social unrest precipitated by a lack of liquidity in the financial markets due to automated trading strategies could highlight the next financial…
U.S. Markets Slightly Down to Start September
Following Labor Day weekend, all major U.S. indexes started in the red with the Dow Jones Industrial Average down over 150 points…