{"id":9536,"date":"2018-05-15T09:45:05","date_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/Life-Insurance-Blog\/?guid=7eed9989e4493aee83d90d4d2a4948bb"},"modified":"2018-05-15T09:45:05","modified_gmt":"2018-05-15T13:45:05","slug":"markets-right-now-stocks-open-lower-bond-yields-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/2018\/05\/15\/markets-right-now-stocks-open-lower-bond-yields-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"Markets Right Now: Stocks open lower; bond yields rise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &#8212; The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local):<\/p>\n<p>9:35 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Stocks are opening moderately lower across the board on Wall Street, led by declines in technology and consumer-focused companies.<\/p>\n<p>The declines Tuesday put the Dow Jones industrial average on track to end an eight-day winning streak.<\/p>\n<p>Bond prices fell, sending yields higher, after the government reported a solid increase in U.S. retail sales last month.<\/p>\n<p>The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note rose to 3.05 per cent, its highest level since July 2011. That yield is used to set interest rates on mortgages and other kinds of loans.<\/p>\n<p>The S&amp;P 500 index fell 18 points, or 0.7 per cent, to 2,711.<\/p>\n<p>The Dow Jones industrial average lost 162 points, or 0.6 per cent, to 24,739. The Nasdaq composite fell 75 points, or 1 per cent, to 7,335.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK &mdash; The latest on developments in financial markets (all times local): 9:35 a.m. Stocks are opening moderately lower across the board on Wall Street, led by declines in technology and consumer-focused companies. The declines Tuesday put the Dow Jones industrial average on track to end an eight-day winning streak. Bond prices fell, sending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9537,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9536\/revisions\/9537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lifeinsurance-orleans.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}