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U.S. Treasury Yields Climb After Strong Jobs Report

CFO News Room

Shorter-term Treasury notes led the yield gains following the jobs report. The Treasury Department building in Washington. In recent trading, the yield on the benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was 1.883%, according to Tradeweb, compared with 1.825% Thursday. Photo: Stefani Reynolds/Bloomberg News.

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Bond Yields Surge in Europe as Old Jitters Return

CFO News Room

The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield, which helps set borrowing costs on everything from mortgages to corporate loans, settled at 1.930%, its highest close since December 2019. That was well above forecasts from economists who had expected a larger drag from the latest wave of Covid-19 cases.

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$30 Trillion With Neither a Whimper or Bang – AIER

CFO News Room

It’s the latest in a series of recent fiscal and monetary benchmarks received with increasing blitheness. That matters, because rising rates will increase the debt service (interest payments the US government must pay on the outstanding Treasury securities). I counted only a handful of headlines reporting on it.

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JPMorgan On Corporate Treasurers And Their ‘Digitization Journey’

PYMNTS

The digital transformation of corporate treasury is not a destination; it’s a journey. However, those data attributes are critical when it comes to automatically reconciling incoming and outgoing payments, and for supporting cash flow forecasting. One example is the JPMorgan Treasury Ignition product that plugs into NetSuite.

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Signs Of Inflation In The US

PYMNTS

Economists had forecasted that the CPI would move up by 0.1 Treasuries prices were mixed. A disappointing economic report for August, weak retail sales and industrial production and slower job growth are expected to prevent the Fed from increasing interest rates at least until December. percent in July.

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Building a career in digital finance post COVID-19

Future CFO

Asked what the priorities of the financial planning and analysis teams were in 2018, three-quarters of CFOs surveyed by FutureCFO between March and April 2020 picked planning, budgeting and forecasting as a key function of the department.

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In Search of Safe Havens: The Trust Deficit and Risk-free Investments!

Musings on Markets

During 2022, the US treasury did not default, but an investor in a 10-year US treasury bond would have earned a return of -18% on his or her investment, as bond prices dropped. and how much to hold in investments with guaranteed returns over their time horizon (cash, treasury bill and treasury bonds).