Yahoo Finance Plus LONDON, July 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. two-year Treasury yield rose back above 5% in early European trade on Friday after labour market data on Thursday fuelled expectations for more aggressive policy tightening from the Federal Reserve.
The two-year Treasury yield was last little changed on the day at 4.9987% after briefly rising above 5%. On Thursday it touched its highest level since 2007 at 5.1197%.
(Reporting by Samuel Indyk; Editing by Amanda Cooper)
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Jim Grant of Grant's Interest Rate Observer believes it will take years to undo the kinks from a decade of ultra-low interest rates.
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As much as $1.2 billion is at stake in a lawsuit filed against Berkshire Hathaway by the Haslam family company Pilot Corp.
PSP Investments sold out of its Palantir position, slashed a stake in AT&T, and bought more shares of chip makers Intel and Nvidia.
The recent surge in interest rates that sent bond yields near a 15-year high is the “single best economic and financial development in 20 years” for retirees, said Joe Davis, global chief economist at Vanguard. With current yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury notes at 4.23%, boomers, ages 59 to 77, have reason to move money into the more conservative investments. This moment presents new opportunities for investors in or near retirement to use bonds to reduce risk and generate steady income, financial advisers say.
The share of first-time homebuyers who received down payment gifts or loans from relatives or friends during the homebuying process in 2023 was 23%.
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As the holidays approach, if you are in the market for a luxury Swiss watch now might be your best time to buy. Subdial, a watch industry data provider, reported that its Bloomberg Subdial Watch Index fell again for the month of November to a new two-year low.
Nvidia wishes to establish a base in Vietnam to develop the country's semiconductor industry as it considers the Vietnamese market an important one, the Vietnamese government said, citing the U.S. chipmaker's chief executive. In his first visit to the Southeast Asian country, Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, said the company viewed Vietnam as its home and affirmed its plans to set up a centre in the country. "The base will be for attracting talent from around the world to contribute to the development of Vietnam's semiconductor ecosystem and digitalisation," the Vietnamese government statement cited Huang after his meeting with Prime Minister Pham Minh Chinh.
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