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Treasury yields at lowest since 2013 show bets on Fed hike fade

Bloomberg Treasuries logged their biggest two-week gain since February as traders wagered that the Federal Reserve will forgo raising interest rates for months to come. Benchmark yields sank to the lowest since 2013, driven by investors seeking shelter in government debt amid global growth concerns and the threat of instability when the U.K. votes June 23 on membership in the ...

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Mexico to team up with firms for deep water oil

  Mexico / AFP In a historic first, Mexico’s struggling state-run Pemex energy company will team up with private firms for a deep-water oil project, officials said. Pemex will “farm out” the $11 billion Trion field in the Gulf of Mexico, which has potentially 480 million barrels of light crude, said company director general Jose Antonio Gonzalez Anaya. President Enrique ...

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GM’s Canada labs to develop self-driving car technology

  Canada / AFP General Motors announced plans to hire 1,000 engineers and software developers at its Canadian research facilities near Toronto over the coming years to design new self-driving cars. “With this expansion, GM Canada will play an important role in our evolution toward vehicles that are connected, autonomous, shared and electric,” Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president of ...

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