by Bloomberg.com | Jan 15, 2025 | AlphaTack Intel
All signs’ point to more expensive costs, economist says MBA measure of 30-year mortgage rate in US hit 7.09% US homebuyers contending with the highest borrowing costs in eight months are seeing mortgage rates rise past a psychological barrier that risks complicating...
by Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget | Jan 15, 2025 | AlphaTack Intel
Representatives Ed Case (D-HI) and Steve Womack (R-AR) recently reintroduced the Sustainable Budget Act (H.R. 222), which would establish an 18-member bipartisan commission tasked with developing recommendations to reduce the deficit and address the nation’s fiscal...
by Bloomberg.com | Jan 13, 2025 | AlphaTack Intel
S&P 500 briefly falls below closing level before Trump’s win Rally in Treasury yields sends ripples through equities market It’s the round-trip ticket no one on Wall Street wanted. The S&P 500 Index on Monday briefly dropped below where it ended on Nov. 5,...
by Franklin Templeton | Jan 13, 2025 | AlphaTack Intel
Franklin Templeton announced today the launch of its first continuously offered fund focused on secondary private equity investments. Co-advised by Franklin Templeton and Lexington Partners, a pioneer in the private equity secondary and co-investment markets, the...
by Bloomberg.com | Jan 10, 2025 | AlphaTack Intel
Options trades were up some $138 million in early December Chinese stock indexes retreat into bear market on geopolitics Traders who briefly had been sitting on more than $100 million in paper profits after buying call options in early December on a pair of tiny...
by Bloomberg.com | Jan 10, 2025 | AlphaTack Intel
UK 10-, 30-year gilts headed for worst week in a year Investors remain worried about UK’s fiscal, inflation outlook A hectic week for UK bond and currency traders came to an end with yields stuck near the highest levels in years and the pound at its weakest since late...