Bond News

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NEW YORK, Sept 12 (Reuters) - Small and mid cap technologyshares were boosted by Broadcom's $3.7 billion bid for NetLogicon Monday, while a report China may buy Italian bonds helpedease fears over ...

Wall Street could make $100 million from the Federal Reserve's next bond market maneuver, but that is considerably less than the gains from prior Fed actions.

* Top German to quit ECB over bond-buying conflict * Obama's $447 billion jobs plan faces uphill battle * Bank of America discussing about 40,000 job cuts -WSJ * Indexes down: Dow 2.7 pct, S&P 2.7 ...

NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks closed more than 2percent lower on Friday after the top German official at theEuropean Central Bank resigned in protest of the bank'sbond-buying program, which ...

* Top German to quit ECB over bond-buying row * Obama's $447 billion jobs plan faces uphill battle * Bank of America discussing about 40,000 job cuts * Indexes down: Dow 3 pct, S&P 2.9 pct, Nasdaq ...

Stocks continued to decline Friday, as investors hesitated to hold equities over the weekend amid fears that Greece may default on its debt and following news that ECB's Juergen Stark will step down due to a conflict over the central bank's bond-buying program.

NEW YORK, Sept 9 (Reuters) - U.S. stocks tumbled on Friday,with the S&P 500 index down 3 percent after a top Germanofficial at the European Central Bank resigned in protest ofthe bank's bond-buying ...

* Top German to quit ECB over bond-buying row * President Obama lays out $447 billion jobs plan * Bank of America discussing about 40,000 job cuts * Indexes down: Dow 2.6 pct, S&P 2.5 pct, Nasdaq 2 pct ...

An earlier version of the Bond Report on Sept. 9 had misstated that Treasurys, instead of Treasury yields, had declined. The story has been corrected.

U.S. stocks fall sharply at the open after ECB board member Juergen Stark, who has been a critic of the bank's bond buying program, stepped down.

The Federal Reserve could create a 50-year bond as one way to stabilize the markets and stimulate the economy.

With the Federal Reserve widely expected later this month to unveil the latest weapon in its easing arsenal, expectations are ranging from Operation Twist to Operation Torque to a 50-year Treasury bond.

The Treasury Department said on Thursday that next week it will sell $66 billion in debt next week, in line with economists' estimates. The government will auction $32 billion in 3-year notes , $21 billion in 10-year notes and $13 billion in 30-year bonds .

The yield on benchmark US Treasury 10-year notes approached the lowest level for six decades as bond traders grew increasingly confident that slumping equities and the eurozone debt crisis would compel ...

NEW YORK, NY-- - ELX Futures, L.P.    , a leading electronic futures exchange, announced today that it established multiple new records in its 30-Year U.S.   Treasury bond futures contracts as well as ...

Wall Street sees an 80 percent chance the Federal Reserve will intervene in the bond market to lower long-term interest rates, according to a Reuters poll, after a report showed the U.S. jobs crisis deepened in August.

MORE STIMULUS?: Stocks rose on hopes of more economic stimulus from the Fed. Minutes showed that Federal Reserve officials discussed a variety of options to bolster the economy at its Aug. 9 meeting, including buying more Treasury bonds.

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