Bonds Analysis & Opinion

iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury ETF (ARCA:TLT), a fund that tracks 20+ year Treasury bonds, closed last week with a strong up day that tested a key resistance level. The chart below illustrates: If...

The German 10-Year bond is marking new all-time highs. The yield is down to a historic low of 0,60% as dovish ECB rhetoric on interest rates and slow economic growth in the Eurozone area create...

Recently I've written about the head-scratching, never-ending, multi-decade decline in long-term interest rates (see chart below). Who cares? Well, just about anybody if you bear in mind the way...

Taxable fixed-income markets continued to perform well for the last quarter of 2014. If one thing remained consistent throughout the year, it was the duration of the unexpected fixed-income rallies....

Is it possible for short-term interest rates to double in a couple of months? Well they have. Going back to last week, Joe Friday shared that interest rates could rise sharply, as the U.S. 10-Year...

In the interest of alliteration, I bought a buttload of bonds earlier today and I intend to hang on to them. Bonds have had an amazing year, and I have long held that interest rates are heading much...

Weekly CFTC COT Net Speculator Report | 10 Year US Treasury Note: CFTC Futures data shows speculators pushed bearish bets to highest level in 4 yearsU.S. 10-Year Treasuries: Large 10-Year Note futures...

Quantitative Easing is over, the last FOMC meeting of the year is behind us and Christmas is just around the corner. Let's take a quick look at what's been happening for US Treasuries. The yields on...

If one likes the idea of buying low and selling higher, junk bonds might come to mind due to how hard they've been hit of late! The chart below highlights that an unusual and large performance spread...

As we cruise into the last two weeks of the year, it is instructive to note the sea change in the municipal-bond market in 2014. The beginning of 2014 saw long tax-free bonds of the highest grade at...

10-Year Treasury yields are still on a long-term downtrend, even though they are having difficulties breaking down below the 2% level.10-year Yield, monthly chart: Original post

Of course, debt defaults are likely to occur among oil producers. But I doubt they will trigger a financial crisis comparable to what happened in 2008 and 2009. Most of their junk bonds are in bond...

We're now six weeks beyond the end of the Fed's latest round of Quantitative Easing. With QE in the past and the Federal Open Market Committee taking center stage on Wednesday, let's take a quick look...

Bund hit all targets to the 154.65/73 area to keep the outlook positive. Prices topped at 154.80 but on a break higher today we target 154.93/97 & perhaps as far as 155.08/11. Any further gains...