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A significant shift in the financial landscape is being mirrored in the recent turmoil in the bond market, with escalating US deficits playing a pivotal role. What Happened: As highlighted by Greg Ip of The Wall Street Journal, despite peaking at 5% in the fall of 2023, the 10-year Treasury yield...

Vacant U.S. office space is rising at an alarming rate as decades of overzealous construction combined with changing work habits leaves commercial buildings at their emptiest since 1979, according to data published on Monday by Moody’s Analytics. The data show that nearly 20% of office space...

A significant number of large asset managers are setting their sights on Bitcoin acquisition as anticipation for the launch of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) exchange-traded funds (ETFs) heightens. What Happened: Yiannis Giokas, a high-ranking director at Moody's Analytics, a branch of Moody's Corp., stated...

Moody’s Corporation, the ratings agency and research firm, has become the first financial services company to leverage the power of Generative AI (GenAI) to launch a customer research platform that it says will save users hours every day. The company announced on Tuesday the launch of Moody...

Moody’s Analytics Chief Economist Mark Zandi opines the Federal Reserve should pause the rate hike cycle, given the moderating inflation and easing labor market conditions, but said a rate cut is out of question unless the economy goes into a recession. What Happened: "If I were king, I would...

The Federal Reserve was under pressure to start its roughly one-year-long journey to control inflation by raising interest rates as a result of stubbornly high costs during 2022. The housing market has been under tremendous pressure as a result of those month-over-month rises in interest rates...

The Past Week, In A Nutshell What Happened: Last week ended positive alongside progress in stimulus talks. Remember This: “Very rarely in the last 10 years have we seen earnings estimates moving higher after a quarterly reporting season,” said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at...

(Wednesday Market Open) Investors seem ready to pause buying to start a new month, quarter, and last half of the year after two days of solid gains helped make for the best quarter in more than 20 years. In economic news, an employment report from ADP and Moody’s Analytics showed fewer job...

Those bracing for upbeat Labor Department non-farm payrolls, or NFP, data for March following an exceedingly strong Automatic Data Processing (NASDAQ: ADP) private payrolls report were in for a disappointment. The March NFP Report: A Dampener The Labor Department's establishment survey, which is...

ADP reported that the private sector job market improved strongly during the month of June. The report shows that private sector jobs surged by 281K jobs during the month, which was well above the consensus expectations for a gain of 206K as well as the data seen in the last five months. Last...

U.S. private employers added just 119,000 jobs, in data released Wednesday morning from ADP, the nation's largest processor of payrolls. This was the fewest number of new jobs added since September 2012. Economists were expecting 150,000 new jobs in the ADP report, and this followed a gain of 131...