Investments

The Treasuries market is girding for potential disruptions from the next and trickiest stage of policymakers’ tightening campaign: the shrinking of an $8.5 trillion bond portfolio.

Yields have jumped so much this year, nearly doubling those on 10-year Treasuries, that it recalls past buying opportunities that paid off when the tide turned.

The yield on 10-year US notes has traded in a range of at least 10 basis points in 50 of 95 trading days so far in 2022. That puts it on track for an annual rate of more than 130 episodes, which would be the highest since 2009.

U.S. Treasuries tumbled Monday, driving the yield on five-year notes to the highest level since September 2008 amid speculation persistent inflation will prompt the Federal Reserve to tighten policy more aggressively.

The size of their returns during the past decade belie their negative yields so far this year.

Ten-year U.S. yields climbed through 2.75% for the first time since March 2019 as investors priced in the impact of the Federal Reserve’s tightening plan and accelerating inflation.

Zigg Capital led the Series B raise for the West Coast-based digital platform, which was founded by former employees of Freddie Mac and Palantir.

Out of all investor group types, those with the deepest pockets — property giants with 100 or more homes — tamped down their spending most at the end of last year, CoreLogic reported.

New York Fed researchers found that banks operating in areas hit by tornadoes, floods and other calamities weren’t financially hurt by those disasters. That surprising result comes with significant caveats, however.

Louisiana's Transportation Secretary and the former Assistant to the President for Infrastructure discuss the state of play in the U.S. P3 sector, the impact of the new infrastructure law, and what's in store for the next decade.

A fresh wave of volatility threatens the battered U.S. Treasury market — and this time it’s all thanks to the Federal Reserve’s ambitious bid to shrink its $9 trillion balance sheet just as it raises interest rates.

The two latest transactions follow in the wake of the government-sponsored enterprise’s first deal of the year and the release of a finalized capital rule aimed at facilitating broader risk-sharing.

New research shows that young Americans are finding it increasingly difficult to buy a home of their own. The co-author of a series of reports will delve into discoveries around the factors why.

The transaction highlights the importance of giving the government-sponsored enterprises like Fannie access to a range of risk-sharing alternatives at a time when market volatility reportedly delayed another type of deal.

The buyers spent an average of $433K per house and paid cash in three of every four purchases, Redfin reported.

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis President James Bullard said he supports raising interest rates by a full percentage point by the start of July — including the first half-point hike since 2000 — in response to the hottest inflation in four decades.

About 3.3% of loans in the deal fall into the 600-649 FICO bucket on the current Sunnova Helios VIII, 2022-A, compared with a 1.2% level in the 2021-C deal.

The firm enters the flourishing investment space backed by the industry’s biggest player and offers consumers multiple paths toward homeownership.

It was the biggest annual gain since 2013, Attom Data Solutions found.

The debt facility from Barings is likely the largest to a Black-owned investor in the market.