©2015 Bloomberg News NM58JC6K50Y1 (Bloomberg) — Wheat traders are suffering from whiplash. Prices swung more than 3 percent on five occasions in the past nine days, the first time that’s happened since 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. A drought spreading over the U.S. plains sent Chicago futures to

©2015 Bloomberg News NM5N726K50YK (Bloomberg) — The most dangerous time for the Treasury market this month will be when the U.S. issues its employment report Friday, if February and March are any guide.Benchmark 10-year yields jumped 14 basis points on Feb. 6 and 13 basis points on March 6, the

©2015 Bloomberg News NM5I5J6K510M (Bloomberg) — Labor organizers have a message for McDonald’s Corp.: Nice try, but the protests will continue. The Fight for $15 campaign, which began calling for fast- food chains to raise wages and allow workers to unionize in 2012, wasn’t mollified by McDonald’s announcement Wednesday that it

©2015 Bloomberg News NM3SNX6JIJV0 (Bloomberg) — Treasuries tend to rally in the month of April. U.S. government securities have advanced in the period every year from 2010 to 2014, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. One theory for the gain is that Japanese investors are buying as they begin their fiscal year

©2015 Bloomberg News NM3SFD6VDKHV (Bloomberg) — Lenders are preparing to cut the credit lines to a group of junk-rated shale oil companies by as much as 30 percent in the coming days, dealing another blow as they struggle with a slump in crude prices, according to people familiar with the

©2015 Bloomberg News Shobhana Chandra (Bloomberg Business) — A booming job market and cheaper fill-ups at the gas pump should be giving millions of Americans more reasons to spend. Instead, they’re salting away the extra savings. The saving rate jumped in February to 5.8 percent, the highest since December 2012 and

©2015 Bloomberg News NM1VEN6JIJVN (Bloomberg) — Indiana-based companies including Eli Lilly & Co. and Anthem Inc. pressed state leaders to enact legislation clarifying that the state’s new religious-freedom law can’t be used to discriminate based on sexual orientation or gender identity. “All our companies seek to promote fair, diverse and inclusive

©2015 Bloomberg News NM1YF16K50XZ (Bloomberg) — Treasuries were poised to outperform U.S. shares this month — even after the Dow Jones Industrial Average rallied to a record. U.S. government securities have returned 0.5 percent through Monday, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. The Dow Jones index couldn’t hold its gains, falling