Bloomberg After two notes sales this week left primary dealers with the fewest Treasuries on record, investors will get another chance to load up on U.S. government debt on Thursday as seven-year securities are auctioned. The Treasury is scheduled to sell $28 billion of seven-year notes, the last of three fixed-rate aussctions this week totaling $88 billion. A gauge ...

  Rio De Janeiro, Brazil / AFP Thousands of Brazilians lined up on Wednesday at a Rio jobs fair, many of them so desperate to escape the country’s economic nosedive that they said they’d take anything on offer. In a symbol of Brazil’s precipitous slide into economic hardship, the almost stationary queue stretched right across a large central square. They were ...

  Bloomberg Mexico’s central bank has the ‘highest hope’ of keeping its rate decisions to scheduled meetings, Governor Agustin Carstens said, quieting market speculation of another surprise increase in borrowing costs. One-year interest-rate swaps fell. The recent peso depreciation has been driven by fundamentals and not by an attack from speculators like the one that took place in February when ...