Election Over, Eyes Turn to Rates
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With the U.S. presidential election  finally over, stock investors won't get much of a break next  week as they face the next big obstacle -- higher interest  rates.
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With less that a month and a half to go until Election Day, things seem to be taking shape. What is driving the most recent events?
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury securities were mixed in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department sold $18 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 1.640 percent, up from 1.635 percent last week. An additional $16 billion was sold in six-month bills at a rate of 1.840 percent, down from 1.860 percent.
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In Australia's most marginal  electorate, rising home loan interest rates have put voters in  the mood for a change of government at general elections on  November 24.
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Labour&#39;s re-election prospects received a boost yesterday when the Bank of England dangled the prospect of a cut in interest rates in the run-up to a likely spring poll.
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While the race for the White House draws most of the public's political attention between now and Election Day, operatives of both parties and private-sector industries will focus a good deal of effort on state races.
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CODY, Wyoming  - Cody is a long way from the marble hallways of the Federal Reserve in Washington, but its fortunes will not be ignored when policy-makers meet to debate interest rates later this month.
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Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills came in mixed in yesterday's auction. The Treasury Department auctioned $19 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 5.010 percent, unchanged from last week.
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Stocks ended almost unchanged on Monday as investors paused for breath after last week&#39;s post-election rally and braced for interest-rate hikes that threatened to slow growth and raise companies&#39; costs.
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If taxes are the price of civilization, election year is the time for bargain hunting. Over the past few months, President Bush and Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass.
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The first U.S. presidential debate this week and a load of data on consumer spending will settle some questions that have been hanging over U.S. stocks, and equity strategists, and traders say the decreased uncertainty could draw buyers back to the market.
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Hopes that interest rates have peaked were fuelled today by news that the Bank of England this month began considering the case for a cut in the cost of borrowing.
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BOCA RATON, Florida  - Presidential candidates competed on Tuesday to look strong on the economy after an interest rate cut by the Federal Reserve and shaky markets worldwide exacerbated fears of a looming U.S. recession.
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Reports on earnings, manufacturing and jobs are due this week, but Bush v. Kerry takes center stage. By Alexandra Twin, CNN/Money Staff Writer.
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Tuesday&#39;s meeting could hold clues to whether it&#39;ll be a November or December pause in rate hikes. By Chris Isidore, CNN/Money senior writer.
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WASHINGTON - Going against conventional wisdom, the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates in an election year. And it is Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, a Republican, who is leading the charge even though an incumbent Republican in the White House is facing voter unrest about the state of the economy...
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Conditions are less than ideal, let us say, for President George W. Bush's last state of the union speech, to be delivered today. This is an administration that had precious little to boast about even before the economy began to nose-dive - a calamity that may not yet be plain in the figures but was certified by the Federal Reserve's dramatic interest rate cut last week. One wonders, how much worse can things get for this White House?