Investors pare longer-dated U.S. Treasuries in week -survey

NEW YORK, April 15 (Reuters) - More investors pared their holdings of longer-dated Treasuries in the latest week after the minutes of the Federal Reserve's March policy meeting suggested the U.S. central bank would be unlikely to raise interest rates until the second half of 2015, according to a survey released on Tuesday by J.P. Morgan Securities.

Norway Oil Fund Made $29 Billion Last Quarter as Stocks Rose

Norway’s $660 billion sovereign wealth fund, the world’s largest, returned 4.7 percent last quarter as global stock markets recovered after central banks from the U.S. to Japan stepped up efforts to stimulate growth.

Spain avoids junk-bond fate, economic agony remains

MADRID: Spain has won breathing space but nothing more, analysts said Wednesday, after it escaped a feared downgrade of its debt to junk-bond status.

Despite 12% Rally Hedge Funds Turn From Stocks

For the first time this year, hedge funds are turning away from a rally in the global stock market.

Asian stocks muted as Fed measures boost fades

HONG KONG (AP) — Asian stocks were muted Monday as the boost faded from the Federal Reserve's announcement last week of new measures to energize the U.S. economy.

World stocks stall without central bank moves

PARIS (AP) — Global stock markets stalled Monday as the absence of stimulus action by central banks in the U.S. and China dismayed investors while signs of a weakening economy in Germany showed the increasing impact that the eurozone debt crisis is having.