Bio-Rad Q4 2025 slides reveal modest growth amid segment divergence and strategic shifts
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Modest Increase in Rates is a Win. Here’s Why Mortgage rates moved 0.03% higher today. On almost any other day, this would be a bit of a bummer, but in today’s case, it’s a victory. There was a ton of potential volatility in the underlying bond market heading into the day due to
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Wednesday had the potential to cause bigger volatility for rates due to the confluence of several important economic reports. If that data had been lopsided in one direction or the other, rates likely would have moved more. As it happened, the data was mixed. The net effect was an exceedingly modest drop in the average
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Modest Incidental Weakness Fri, Jan 2 2026, 3:52 PM Modest Incidental Weakness Despite a bit of incidental selling today, the bond market has survived the winter holiday season without even attempting to break outside the narrow prevailing range. This is especially true for shorter duration Treasuries and MBS. It has been and
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Modest Recovery From Morning Weakness 1 Hour, 44 Min ago Modest Recovery From Morning Weakness Bonds were slightly weaker this morning in a move that looked like it might have been significant when compared to yesterday’s narrow range. But in a just-barely-wider context, today’s volatility was just as inconsequential as almost any
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If there’s one resounding theme in the bond market this week, it’s that trading momentum marched to its own beat with almost zero regard for the available economic data. While this was a notable disconnect on Wednesday (little reaction to ADP/ISM), it’s fairly easy to reconcile on a day like today where the PCE data is
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Modest Gains After Mid-Day Volatility Tue, Nov 18 2025, 4:46 PM Modest Gains After Mid-Day Volatility With only a few exceptions, bonds have been a rudderless ship during the government shutdown. With the backlogged data returning in a slow and uncertain fashion, rudder repairs are similarly slow. In today’s case, bonds benefited
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Dollar heads for modest weekly rise, balancing Fed outlook and US data
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Bonds were moderately weaker in the overnight session with most of the selling arriving at 7:56am ET when Alphabet filed for a large corporate bond offering, estimated at $15bln. Corporate bond issuance puts upward pressure on rates in several ways and there’s almost always an immediate pop when a new, large deal (like this morning’s)
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Oil gains after OPEC+ output hike seen modest
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