Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Focus turns to syndicated bond deals, with borrowers hoping for no new volatility from this week’s key economic releases. By and large, rates markets seem to have acquired a good deal of Covid...

On Monday, yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note plowed decisively through its recent 1.5% ceiling after edging above it on Friday, tacking on 13 basis points to above 1.63%. Even as snow...

As counter-intuitive as that may seem in a world of ostensibly rising interest rates, Bonds, by way of the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT), have closed their price gap and look poised...

Inflation is rising, the Federal Reserve is reacting slowly, and yields on the 10-year Treasury remain stubbornly low, fluctuating gently below 1.5%. What does this mean? Analysts are starting to...

“Junk” bonds have never paid so little. Which makes them pointless. We’re here for the yields, not the credit quality!Fortunately we can improve our dividends and our safety by being...

The US 10-year Treasury is sitting at a major price crossroads level, as shown on the following monthly chart.The tightening triangle formation on the Balance of Power, shown in histogram format, is...

There are people who listen to Boris Johnson as if he was someone to take seriously. Some of them even write commentary on the bond market.So when the British prime minister said Sunday there is a...

How’s that allocation to bonds working out this year? Probably pretty good, if you favored Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS).With less than four weeks left to the trading year, TIPS...

US junk bonds and several slices of foreign fixed-income markets led a mixed run of returns for the major asset classes last week, based on a set of ETFs through Friday’s close (Dec. 3).The top...

The yield curve is flattening.I don’t cheerlead a given view, but if I were to do that, I’d be cheering for a yield curve flattener to put a correction to inflationist dogmatists quoting...

The stock markets sit in a dicey situation with not only the Omicron variant adding stress to economic growth, but with Fed Chair Jerome Powell commenting on the possibility of speeding up...

Yes, at least sometimes, and this is one of those times – big time!Comparing several maturities on the Treasury yield curve during U.S. economic expansions since 1970 shows that rates have...

The benchmark 10-year Treasury note has become a barometer of COVID fears, yo-yoing as concern rises and drops. On Friday, the yield on the 10-year fell below 1.5% as the Dow crashed amid worries...

Was Friday’s selling wave overdone? Too early to tell, but the damage from last week’s sudden bout of risk-off left all the major asset classes in red – except U.S. bonds, based on a...