US equity indexes slipped with government bond yields in midday trading Friday after a consumer sentiment gauge was revised downwards. The Nasdaq Composite fell 0.1% to 20,040.1, with the S&P 500 down ...
The BOJ hiked short-term lending rates by a quarter point to 0.5%, which had been already priced into money markets after central bank officials, including Governor Kazuo Ueda, had clearly signalled ...
There is concern over how much longer governments can continue to finance the mountain of debt they have accumulated, which the IMF estimates to be $100 trillion globally.