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...Bitcoin, which is sensitive to rate cut expectations, rose 0.6 per cent to $66,100. Markets in greater China were closed for the Ching Ming tomb sweeping festival....
...US Treasuries sold off, with the yield on the rate-sensitive two-year Treasury note rising 0.05 percentage points to 4.66 per cent....
...Texas has experienced almost double the rate of global warming since 1975 at 0.34C per decade, according to a state climatologist report in 2021....
...In the Treasury market, the two-year yield — which moves with interest rate expectations — fell 0.05 percentage points to 4.66 per cent....
...US government debt sold off, with the yield on the rate-sensitive two-year Treasury note rising 0.05 percentage points to 4.66 per cent....
...South Korea’s currency declined 0.8 per cent to trade at Won1,330.50 per dollar, the yen slid 0.3 per cent to ¥146.15, while the Australian dollar fell 0.7 per cent to US$0.66....
...Traders now price a 66 per cent chance of a first interest rate cut in April, down from around 70 per cent ahead of the announcement....
...Yields on benchmark 10-year US Treasuries rose 0.08 percentage points to 3.93 per cent as prices fell, while yields on UK 10-year gilts rose 0.12 percentage points to 3.66 per cent....
...Yields on benchmark 10-year Treasuries, which move inversely to prices, peaked at 4.66 per cent following the data, up 0.16 percentage points....
...Local smartphone maker Huawei also launched the Aito M9 priced at about $66,500 at the end of last year....
...Traders sold US government debt, with the yield on the 10-year Treasury note rising 0.1 percentage point to 4.66 per cent. The yield on the two-year note rose 0.11 percentage points to 4.94 per cent....
...The shares closed up more than 5 per cent to $3.66 on Thursday, still more than 60 per cent down this year....
...The 10-year Treasury yield dropped 0.12 percentage points to 4.66 per cent. A measure of the dollar’s strength against a basket of six other currencies dropped 0.9 per cent on the day....
...The yield on the 10-year Treasury note was down 0.13 percentage points at 4.66 per cent in Thursday afternoon trading. The dollar fell 0.7 per cent against a basket of peers....
...The biggest recent improvement was in Italy, where the ranks of unemployed people declined by 66,000 to just over 1.9mn in November....
...Futures markets now indicate a roughly 50 per cent probability of a first rate cut by June, down from an almost 66 per cent chance on Thursday, according to CME FedWatch....
...UK government debt led a global bond market sell-off on Wednesday, with yields on 10-year gilts surging 0.15 percentage points to 4.66 per cent, its biggest daily move since July and the highest level since...
...In London’s Mayfair, the lofty neoclassical staircase of 66 Grosvenor Street has been freshly painted a sophisticated grey. The lick of paint has more to it than just a modern colour palette....
...January’s average surface air temperature was 13.14C, 0.12C above the temperature of the previous warmest January in 2020....
...2030s, and to start to shrink by 0.1 per cent a year by the 2040s....
...Europe’s riskiest corporate bonds now have an average yield of 19.66 per cent, according to an Ice BofA index tracking regional debt rated triple C and lower....
...The season between June and August was the warmest recorded “by a large margin” with an average temperature of 16.8 degrees Celsius — 0.66°C above the average, Copernicus said....
...And the outlook for UK trade over the next four years is also pretty gloomy, with export and import volumes expected to grow by just 0.3 and 0.1 per cent, respectively, between 2024 and 2028....
...On the face of it that is a 66 per cent return — or a smidgen over 5 per cent a year. Not great — but not bad....
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