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NEW YORK, March 15- U.S. Still, some investors say there has not been enough evidence of a recovery to spur Federal Reserve officials to remove their economic stimulus of buying $85 billion per month of mortgage-backed securities and Treasuries any time soon. "
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FRANKFURT/ AMSTERDAM, March 15- One of the biggest questions facing financial markets is the will-they or won't-they hovering over the European Central Bank's bond-buy programme. But when Spain held off applying for the prerequisite aid plan, the bank shifted this stance and put the onus on governments to fight the crisis.
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LONDON, March 15- Chinks are showing in the Italian bond market's resilience to the political stalemate that followed last month's election.
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NEW YORK, March 15- U.S. stock index futures were little changed on Friday ahead of a flurry of economic data, with the S&P within 2 points of an all-time closing high. *Due at 8:30 a.m. ET are the February consumer price index and the Empire State Manufacturing survey for March.
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TOKYO, March 15- Japanese government bonds held steady, with yields not far above record lows hit last week as the government on Friday gave its official nod to a new Bank of Japan leadership that is expected to proceed with aggressive monetary easing.
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BRUSSELS, March 15- Beware the credit default swap on certain government bonds. The survey, the results of which were released on Friday, was organised by Sven Giegold, a German member of the European Parliament who has played an influential role in EU financial reform.
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March 15- The Federal Reserve sent a record $88.4 billion in profits to the U.S. The income came mostly from $80.5 billion in interest on Treasury bonds and mortage-backed securities, according to the annual financial statements audited by Deloitte.
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TOKYO/ BANGALORE, March 15- The Bank of Japan will buy longer-dated government bonds, and possibly as soon as the first meeting under the new leadership, in its effort to pull the economy out of deflation, a Reuters poll found.
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NEW YORK, March 14- JPMorgan Chase& Co's stock buyback plan that was conditionally approved by the Federal Reserve on Thursday calls for spending half as much as was allowed before the bank lost $6.2 billion in the "London Whale" derivatives trades.
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*Bondholders, trustee BNY Mellon opposed redemption. NEW YORK, March 14- Chesapeake Energy Corp on Thursday failed to win a court order allowing it to redeem $1.3 billion of notes early at a favorable price, a setback for the second-largest U.S. natural gas company as it tries to close a potential $4 billion cash shortfall this year.
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WASHINGTON, March 14- Senior managers at JPMorgan Chase& Co, including Chief Investment Officer Ina Drew, were told for months about the bad derivatives bets that ended up costing the bank $6.2 billion but did little to rein them in until it was too late, according to a U.S. Senate report.
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*Bondholders, trustee BNY Mellon opposed redemption. NEW YORK, March 14- Chesapeake Energy Corp on Thursday failed to win a court order allowing it to redeem $1.3 billion of notes early at a favorable price, a setback for the second-largest U.S. natural gas company as it tries to close a potential $4 billion cash shortfall this year.
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*Treasury $13 billion 30- year bond sale gets weak reception. NEW YORK, March 14- Long-dated U.S. The 30- year refunding auction didn't go well, "said John Canavan, market analyst at Stone& McCarthy Research Associates in Princeton, New Jersey."
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*Treasury $13 billion 30- year bond sale gets weak reception. NEW YORK, March 14- Long-dated U.S. The 30- year refunding auction didn't go well, "said John Canavan, market analyst at Stone& McCarthy Research Associates in Princeton, New Jersey."
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LONDON, March 14- Spanish government bonds underperformed other euro zone debt on Thursday after Madrid sold less than a billion euros of debt at an off-calendar sale, pointing to low investor demand for long-dated paper.
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NEW YORK, March 14- U.S. Investors were also pushing to undermine Treasuries prices heading into the Thursday afternoon auction of $13 billion of reopened 30- year bonds.
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*Debt market favours Spain over Italy on political factors. MADRID, March 14- Spain saw solid demand at a long-term bond auction on Thursday, riding a wave of enthusiasm for its debt relative to Italy's that might soon ebb as investors look more closely at a gloomy economic backdrop.
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NEW YORK, March 14- S&P 500 index futures added slightly to gains on Thursday after data showed the number of Americans filing for first time jobless benefits unexpectedly fell last week.
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NEW YORK, March 14- U.S. stock index futures edged higher on Thursday, ahead of labor and producer prices data, as the market struggled to make further advances after the Dow industrials closed up for a ninth straight session a day earlier.
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NICOSIA, March 14- Ireland's issuance of its first long-term bond since being bailed out is an important step towards qualifying for help from the ECB's bond-buying programme, European Central Bank Governing Council member Panicos Demetriades said.