U.S. Bond Market Reverses Course
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U.S. Bond Market Reverses Course

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 1, 20261 min
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Investors have started picking between winners and losers among the debt of different developed countries. Plus: Shares in toymaker Mattel soar nearly 20% after the Journal reported it recently attracted takeover interest from Authentic Brands Group. Pierre Bienaimé hosts. Sign up for WSJ’s free What’s News newsletter. An artificial-intelligence tool assisted in the making of this episode by creating summaries that were based on Wall Street Journal reporting and reviewed and adapted by an editor. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for i...

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Here's your closing bell brief for Thursday, October 1st. I'm Pierre Bienemay for The Wall Street Journal. The US bond market reversed course today. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yields retreated sharply after hitting a new 24-year high near

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5.34% this morning. Investors have started picking between winners and losers among the debt of different developed countries. traders noted that investors are piling into bonds of the US and Germany, indicating a

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flight to bonds seen as safer. Yields on French, Italian and Greek bonds were all sharply higher. And stocks ended the day modestly higher. The Nasdaq and the Dow both ticked up 0.04%. The S&P 500 grew nearly a fifth of a percent. Among individual companies, shares in the toymaker Mattel soared nearly 20% after the journal reported it recently attracted takeover

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