* US stocks end sharply lower after Treasury auction * Yields on the 20-year debt rise to highest since November 2023 * Tax-cut bill fuels further federal deficit concerns * Oil prices end lower; bitcoin hits a record high (Updates with closing U.S. market levels) By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, May 21 (Reuters) - Major stock indexes and the dollar...

ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist  U.S. debt despair Investors' unease about holding long-dated sovereign debt was magnified by a soft 20-year U.S. Treasury note auction on Wednesday, which slammed the dollar and stocks, pushed long bond yields higher and steepened the U.S. yield curve. In my...

TOKYO, May 22 (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei share average fell to a two-week low on Thursday, tracking the sharp declines on Wall Street, while a spike in U.S. Treasury yields and a stronger yen weighed on sentiment. By 0019 GMT, the Nikkei was down 0.8% at 37,007.79, after dropping to 36,873.61, the lowest since May 8. The broader Topix slipped...

ORLANDO, Florida, May 21 (Reuters) - TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist U.S. debt despair Investors' unease about holding long-dated sovereign debt was magnified by a soft 20-year U.S. Treasury note auction on Wednesday, which slammed the dollar and stocks, pushed long bond yields higher and steepened the U.S. yield curve....