Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreBill Gross of Pimco is always worth reading.
On Wednesday the undisputed king of the bond markets followed up on thoughts originally set out in the Financial Times in December. This is good because the original article confused a lot of people. In some cases it even angered them outright. Read more
Izabella Kaminska joined FT Alphaville in October 2008. Before that she worked as a producer at CNBC, a natural gas reporter at Platts and an associate editor of BP's internal magazine.
Learn moreReaders take note. This is a chart of the one-year German note, currently yielding less than zero. An unprecedented event according to Reuters:
| Market | Last price | Today's change |
52 week high |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| FTSE 100 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 09:35 |
6,769 | +13.23 | +0.2% | 6,769 |
| FTSEurofirst 300 Index: FSI As of May 21 2013 09:20 |
1,251 | -1.30 | -0.1% | 1,252 |
| S&P 500 INDEX: WCB As of May 20 2013 05:00 |
1,666 | -1.18 | -0.1% | 1,673 |
| Euro/US Dollar FX Spot Rate As of May 21 2013 03:59 |
1.29 | 0.00 | -0.0% | 1.37 |
| ICE Brent Crude Oil Front Month: IEU As of May 21 2013 09:25 |
104.37 | -0.43 | -0.4% | 119.17 |
| COMEX GOLD 1 FUTURES CHAIN Front Mon: CMX As of May 21 2013 08:58 |
1,386 | +1.50 | +0.1% | 1,795 |
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