Fundamentally: Mea Culpa, Said the Bond Market Watchers
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The stock market has spent the better part of the last two weeks trying to figure out what higher bond yields really mean for equities.
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Aug. 20 (Bloomberg) -- If you&#39;re a money manager, there&#39;s a lesson to be learned from a scenario unreeled by the US Securities and Exchange Commission last week.
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Standard & Poorâs and the Moodyâs Corporationâs proposals to restore the credibility of their ratings have met with skepticism from some of their toughest critics.
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For much of the spring and summer, the question on every bond investor&#39;s mind was whether 2004 would be a reprise of 1994. In that annus horribilis for fixed income, the Federal Reserve raised rates more than
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Standard & Poor's on Wednesday slashed its outlook for Ambac Financial Group and MBIA Insurance Corp, the world's biggest bond insurers that insure more than $1.2 trillion in debt.
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The Bank of England said that injecting cash into the financial system amounted to a bailout of investors who made bad decisions.
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When the Fed fights the wrong battle, you lose.
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Investors were reassured by a drop in Treasury bond yields yet remained wary as second-quarter earnings season kicks off this week.
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If it was a terrible week for Wall Street, and it was a devastating one for companies that promise to protect investors against bond losses.
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The proposal to break-up the businesses of bond insurers into two separate segments, with one covering "good" municipal debt and the other covering "bad" structured finance debt, may lead to years of litigation, said Bank of America analysts, in a note to clients, late last week.
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Investors poured back into equities on Thursday, hoping a rescue plan for ailing bond issuers would stem credit losses, while allegations of a massive trade fraud at Societe Generale added to financial sector woes.
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Merck &amp; Co. (MRK.N: Quote, Profile, Research) saw its ratings slashed by a third credit ratings agency on Tuesday as Standard &amp; Poor&#39;s delivered the final blow
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Investor's Business Daily - Steadfast or just stubborn? A day after the Federal Reserve slashed rates in an emergency move, the European Central Bank tried to squash any talk that it would follow suit.
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Why you shouldn't care about the yield curve.
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WELLINGTON : Finance Minister Michael Cullen apologised Wednesday for saying that the Reserve Bank had hiked it&#39;s key interest rate.
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Falling Treasury bond yields, in spite of three interest rate rises this year from the Federal Reserve, have made bonds more sensitive to economic data, as investors seek to understand what this unusual market activity implies for the US economy.
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The market has been shaken by uncertainty surrounding bond insurers and whether they will be able to handle large losses in the value of mortgage-backed bonds.