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Profits on the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, which are handed over to the Treasury, were down 36 percent in the first quarter of 2013 from a year earlier, as the central bank’s interest income dropped.
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Wall Street banks are expanding holdings of speculative-grade bonds as prices fall from record highs with investors retreating from exchange-traded funds that buy the debt.
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Haruhiko Kuroda may need to talk his way out of a paradox he helped create.
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The government’s $13 billion auction of 10-year inflation-indexed notes may draw a yield of negative 0.244 percent, according to the average forecast in a Bloomberg News survey of eight of the Federal Reserve’s 21 primary dealers.
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The dollar rose against most major peers after Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the central bank may taper monthly bond purchases at its next few meetings if it’s confident of sustained gains in the economy.
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The Bank of Japan pledged to adjust its unprecedented stimulus program as needed after a jump in bond yields that highlighted risks linked to policy makers’ campaign to revive the world’s third-largest economy.
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Commodity Futures Trading Commission investigators are poring over 1 million e-mails and instant messages as part of their price-manipulation probe of a swaps benchmark that helps determine interest rates on everything from annuities to bonds linked to skyscrapers.
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Credit downgrades, recession and President Francois Hollande’s gaping budget shortfall have done little to prevent French bonds from outshining gold.
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Sales of corporate bonds in the U.S. are surging toward the busiest May ever as borrowers race to the market before demand dries up with Bill Gross and Warren Buffett cautioning against buying debt at all-time low yields.
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Vietnam’s five-year bond yield fell to the lowest level since 2007 on speculation low funding costs are spurring demand for government securities. The dong dropped.
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