| May 23, 2012 10:40AM Here is an interesting note for debt market students: Germany is scheduled today to sell two-year bonds that won't make set interest payments . The move reflects the safe harbor of German debt while revealing trepidation about the euro zone. There is even talk of German bonds with negative yields. "In these uncertain times, people are more concerned about the return of capital rather than the return on capital," said one strategist at Lloyds Bank. (Our 2-yr. was auctioned off yesterday with a yield... May 23, 2012 4:16PM Freddie Mac said that first quarter 2011 economic data that has begun to emerge from various sources are, even though some is preliminary, beginning to create an impression of what the year may hold. Data on economic growth indicates that the quarter had slower growth than the one that preceded it but was still up from three of the previous four quarters. The slower growth primarily reflected less inventory accumulation and a dip in residential construction. According to the corporation's Economic...
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