Top Fixed-Income Stories: Week ending May 18th

Two Italian, populist, eurosceptic parties have reached an agreement to form a government of the eurozone’s third largest economy, setting up the single currency bloc for a possible new crisis.

Global benchmark Brent crude-oil and U.S. benchmark West Texas Intermediate took different paths on Tuesday, widening the price spread to more than $7 a barrel for the first time since mid-2015.

Here we go again: Treasury yields are spiking, and unsettling the stock market along the way.

While money managers from Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to UBS Wealth Management still tout investing opportunities in emerging markets, the asset class has one notable critic: Harvard professor Carmen Reinhart.

Reports from the New York and Cleveland Federal Reserve banks should bolster officials’ confidence that inflation will continue to rise.