Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Yesterday’s much weaker than expected US retail sales report initially caused the US 10-Year Treasury bond yield to fall in the morning. Then it spent the rest of the day moving higher. The...

During my daily radio broadcast Tuesday, I received a rather "panicked" call regarding the "dramatic plunge" in his bond funds due to the recent jump in interest rates. Of course, he is not alone....

European government bond yields have suddenly reversed course, and after a multi-year rally we have seen a historic jump in yields. There is no longer a QE 'scarcity premium' in German bonds and...

There has been lots of talk lately about a bond market top. This type of talk has actually been happening on and off for a few years. To our surprise we find we have not written a bond specific report...

Today's chart of the day focuses on US interest rates and the bond yield curve. At the beginning of 2014, longer maturity bonds were oversold and market participants were positioned heavily on the...

Rates have been on the rise since the first of February this year. Of late, both the U.S. 30-Year bond and U.S. 10-Year note are blowing right through resistance.Bond players might want to respect...

The fierce fixed income sell-off has been mostly technical in nature and in our view created value in the short end of the German yield curve. However, increasing US yields ahead of the first Fed hike...

Investors are so used to trading ETFs that they seldom ask themselves questions about how those ETFs are constructed. In the event of major market disruptions, though, that could prove problematic --...

Friday’s jobs report in general -- and the sluggish wage component in particular -- have weakened the ProShares UltraShort 20+ Year Treasury (ARCA:TBT) by pressing long rates lower.However, my...

Are bonds scared of copper heading higher? Are bonds scared of crude oil heading higher? Are bonds scared of the employment stats getting stronger? Humbly, I don’t just don't know. I do know...

The world is getting hyped up about bond yields lately with bonds of all stripes declining, as if we are in the midst of a debt Armageddon (we are and have been in the midst of a decades-long and...

Bond prices have been falling for 7 days in a row. Yields are now knocking at 3% for the first time since December, when they were still falling. The yield has crossed its 200-day SMA for the first...

US bond yields have jumped recently. The 10-Year Treasury is up from a recent low of 1.87% on April 17 to 2.26% yesterday. Everyone is blaming that development on the spike in Eurozone bond yields,...

Is the Fed losing control of interest rates? I always though that it was in control of them. If true, then does that mean that Janet is raising rates and not telling anyone? The table below looks at...