Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Bonds are in the news these days, and not necessarily for bullish reasons. Between the threat of rising interest rates and the possibility of a Treasury default in the US, the notion of fixed-income...

This Great Graphic shows the international holders of US Treasuries as of July. The graph was posted on CNNMoney. Of the roughly $5.6 trillion worth of Treasuries held abroad, $2.42 trillion, or about...

Ten-Year Government of Canada Bond support at 129.24 was tested and held the downside . If we continue lower today look for 129.00 then a buying opportunity at 128.82/77. A low for the day is likely...

In recent trade, the benchmark 10-year note is yielding 2.60-2.65% with yields moving inversely to price. We've seen an uptick in prices in the last three weeks and, therefore, yields have...

Ten-Year Government of Canada Bond support at 129.24. If we continue lower look for 129.00 then a buying opportunity at 128.82/77. A low for the day is likely here but longs need stops below 128.65...

I just love this chart, but I don’t know of a good way to short municipal bonds. The bid/ask spread is wider than Roseanne Barr’s hips, and the borrow rate on the ETF -- if you can find...

Ten-Year Government of Canada Bond double top pattern triggered selling as predicted and we closed below support at 129.24. If we continue lower look for 129.00 then a buying opportunity at 128.82/77....

While strolling through charts -- which is pretty much all I do with my life -- I was struck by how amazing the High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) is lining up with its various trendlines. It completed a...

Recently the Fed announced that the $85 billion bond purchase by the Treasury will continue. Up until this point the financial news media seemed sure that the Fed would pare back their stimulus...

Bill Gross’s monthly investment outlook is invariably worth reading, and this month is no exception. His writing is engaging as well as insightful, and as the overseer of $2 trillion in assets...

After what can only be described as a miserable summer for the municipal bond market, the muni market came back to life in the second part of September. Really cheap blocks of 5%+ yields became harder...

If you have been reading this blog for long enough, you would understand that I am extremely negative on Treasury Bonds (actually almost all bonds). The view stems from the fact that interest rates...

From the summer lows in June of last year to May of this year, the Junk Bond ETF (JNK) and the S&P 500 moved higher together (see green shaded area below), which, if history is a good guide, was a...

US bonds are still pushing higher, now at the new high of the week within wave 5 of 3) targeting 121.26 on five year and 126.70 on 10 year US noted. Correlation with USD is still negative so EUR...