Sun, Jul 11, 2004 - Page 10 News List

Wall Street still worried over growth

SUMMERTIME BLUES Investors and analysts in New York are bothered by the slow pace of economic growth in the US, as terror fears add to their troubles

AFP , NEW YORK

"They are waiting for not so much what [companies] are going to report but what they're forecasting" for the coming months, Suskind said.

Bonds edged lower, giving back some recent gains. The yield on the 10-year US Treasury bond climbed to 4.466 percent from 4.458 percent a week earlier and that on the 30-year bond rose to 5.216 percent from 5.207 percent. Bond yields and prices move in opposite directions.

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