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CHICAGO (Dow Jones) - Treasurys fell Friday and finished with the biggest weekly rise in the benchmark 10-year yield in nearly seven months as the bond market looks for a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next Tuesday and probably at each of the central bank's next two meetings. Early price gains seen on back of mostly mild readings on current inflation faded by afternoon. Yield and price  ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - Treasurys fell Friday and finished with the biggest weekly rise in the benchmark 10-year yield in nearly seven months as the bond market looks for a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next Tuesday and probably at each of the central bank's next two meetings. var gfEbInIframe = true; var gEbBAd = new Object(); gEbBAd.nFlightID = 88023; gEbBAd.nWidth = 300; gEbBAd.nH ...

WASHINGTON (Dow Jones) -- Fannie Mae sold more mortgages than it bought in September, adding to a year-long shrinkage of growth in its mortgage portfolio holdings. The housing finance giant (FNM) sold $31.1 billion of mortgages from its huge portfolio and bought $10 billion, the company said Friday. Fannie and Freddie Mac (FRE) hold a combined $1.4 trillion in mortgages and mortgage-backed s ...

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CHICAGO (Dow Jones) - Treasurys firmed Friday in response to mixed U.S. economic data - stronger growth, but milder inflation - that most said allows the Federal Reserve to stick with modest interest-rate changes and not adopt a more aggressive response. The bond market is already prepared for a quarter-point rate hike next week and likely again in December and January. The benchmark 10-year ...

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By Lorna Bourke LONDON (Citywire) - Confidence among buy-to-let landlords continues to rise, with increased demand for rental property from tenants during the third quarter of this year. The latest buy-to-let Confidence Survey from Mortgage Express, the specialist lending arm of Bradford & Bingley, claims that 87 percent of its respondents are planning to either extend or maintain their portfoli ...

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CHICAGO (Dow Jones) - The Treasury market got what most traders believe to be a short-lived break on Thursday, in step with weaker U.S. factory data and a regulatory investigation of automotive giant General Motors that sunk stocks for a third straight day. Investors sought out the relatively low-risk sanctuary of the government bond market, where high yields proved too alluring for some large  ...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) - The Treasury market got what most traders believe to be a short-lived break on Thursday, in step with weaker U.S. factory data and a regulatory investigation of automotive giant General Motors that sunk stocks for a third straight day. var gfEbInIframe = true; var gEbBAd = new Object(); gEbBAd.nFlightID = 88023; gEbBAd.nWidth = 300; gEbBAd.nHeight = 250; var gstrEbRand ...