* Stocks claw higher ahead of Fed minutes. * Dollar off 1-month low, bond markets in holding pattern. * Oil gains on supply questions. * Graphic: Global asset performance http://tmsnrt.rs/2yaDPgn. * Graphic: World FX rates http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh. By Marc Jones.
Japan's 10-year government bond yields fell to their lowest level in one and a half months on Wednesday, tracking an overnight decline in Treasuries as weak U.S. housing data deepened fears of an economic slowdown.
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. While investors obsess over what the world's biggest central bank might do next, the uneasy calm prevailing in global markets is under threat. First, Russia has edged closer to default after the United States said it would not extend a waiver that had allowed Moscow to pay U.S. bondholders.
A look at the day ahead in markets from Saikat Chatterjee. While investors obsess over what the world's biggest central bank might do next, the uneasy calm prevailing in global markets is under threat. First, Russia has edged closer to default after the United States said it would not extend a waiver that had allowed Moscow to pay U.S. bondholders.
The New Zealand dollar traded an early decline for a big gain on Wednesday after a hawkish tilt from the country's central bank, while the greenback bounced off a one-month low amid a stabilisation in Treasury yields.
* Stocks slide on poor earnings, bearish economic data. * China talks stimulus, but economic damage already done. * Euro near 4-week high as Lagarde flags July rate hike. By Herbert Lash and Lawrence White.
The Canadian dollar weakened
against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday, pulling back from its
highest level in nearly three weeks, as oil prices fell and
investors grew more worried about the economic ...
U.S. Treasury yields fell to
one-month lows on Tuesday after housing data pointed to a
cooling economy as the Federal Reserve presses on with
aggressively hiking interest rates to tackle soaring ...
* Stocks slide on bearish earnings, economic data. * China talks stimulus, but economic damage already done. * Euro near 4-week high as Lagarde flags July rate hike. By Herbert Lash and Lawrence White.
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