Tag: bond trading

October 14, 2020

Goldman Sachs on Wednesday posted third-quarter results that crushed analysts’ profit estimates on stronger-than-expected results in bond trading and asset management. The firm generated $3.62 billion in profit, or a record $9.68 a share, exceeding the $5.57 per share estimate […]

August 10, 2020

Long-term U.S. Treasury yields rose on Monday as traders made room for this week’s record auctions of government bonds, which will finance the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. What are Treasurys doing? The 10-year Treasury note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, 0.579% rose […]

January 14, 2019

Citigroup posted fourth-quarter revenue that missed analysts’ estimates by a half-billion dollars as bond trading declined amid a difficult December for markets. The bank said fixed-income revenue dropped 21 percent to $1.94 billion from a year earlier as trading conditions […]

May 17, 2018

Encouraging data on U.S. consumers and businesses suggest that GDP growth is on pace for a rebound in Q2 after a shaky and quirky Q1. Continued optimism among consumers, solid job growth, and low unemployment form the basis of our […]

October 12, 2017

Citigroup Inc. (C – Get Report) , the Wall Street bank, said third-quarter profit rose 8% from a year earlier, as gains on a sale of a fixed-income analytics business helped make up for a plunge in bond-trading revenue. Earnings […]

April 18, 2017

Bank of America (BAC)  posted higher quarterly profit than analysts estimated as bond-trading revenue surged during the early months of Donald Trump’s presidency and investors sought to protect their wealth from turmoil in the European Union. Profit of 41 cents […]

October 13, 2016

Bond trading, that juggernaut of Wall Street revenue and bonuses, is back. Sort of. The largest U.S. banks, led by JPMorgan Chase (JPM) on Friday, probably will report a 23% jump in third-quarter revenue from trading bonds, currencies and commodities, […]