Mohamed A. El-Erian The very sharp drop in yields on U.S. Treasuries on Friday suggests that the fixed-income markets have interpreted the last week’s disappointing jobs report as an indication that the economy is facing diminishing demand momentum. As a result, traders significantly lowered their expectations of an interest-rate hike by the Federal Reserve this summer, which also drove …

When President Barack Obama came into office, the fact that Russia sold the U.S. the rocket engines it needed for launches was a feature of U.S. foreign policy, not a bug. Obama was trying to reset the U.S. relationship with Moscow, and that meant finding areas where the two former Cold War rivals could cooperate. If the U.S. would rely …

  Bloomberg Consumer sentiment returned to the highest this year in Canada as Quebec residents felt better off financially and more people bet the country’s housing boom would continue. The Bloomberg Nanos Canadian Consumer Confidence Index rose to 57.8 in the week ended June 3, from 57.5 previously, according to telephone polling of 1,000 respondents. Quebec’s pocketbook measure — based …