Following the Federal Reserve’s two-rate cut and release of its latest Summary of Economic Projections (SEP) on September 18, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has surged by 60 basis points over the past two months, from around 3.7% to approximately 4.3%. Why have Treasury yields risen so sharply? W...

Last week, U.S. equity markets experienced a pullback, primarily driven by declines in the tech sector, leading the S&P 500 to drop 1.37%. In the bond market, decreasing election uncertainty and a resilient labor market caused yields on 2-year and 10-year Treasuries to rise to 4.212% and 4.386%,...

The Bank of Japan (BOJ) announced on October 31 that it would keep the policy rate unchanged at 0.25%, meeting market expectations. This decision marks the second consecutive meeting of rate stability following the BOJ’s rate hike in July. In its quarterly outlook report, the BOJ forecast that ...

China’s manufacturing PMI rebounded into expansion territory, ending a five-month contraction, according to data released by the National Bureau of Statistics on October 31. The October manufacturing PMI reached 50.1, up by 0.3 percentage points from the previous period, exceeding market expectati...

The U.S. job openings in September reached their lowest level in nearly three years, according to data released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on October 29. Job openings fell by 418,000 to 7.443 million, marking the lowest level since January 2021, with the job opening rate declining by ...