Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Article Summary: It’s shaping up to be another critical week for forex price action and we believe buying US Dollar dips remains attractive. DailyFX PLUS System Trading Signals -- To briefly...

The state of Illinois has priced a $1.3 billion tax-exempt bond issue. The state has ratings of A3 Moody’s and A- Standard and Poor’s. For more than one year, we have not owned the state...

For months, people have been trying to explain the stock market’s relative resilience by comparing its performance to the bond market. Since early May, commentators have proclaimed that a...

Treasuries advanced for a third day as investors weighed whether the world’s largest economy is expanding fast enough to prompt the Federal Reserve to taper monetary stimulus.Benchmark 10-year...

Well it seems Mr. Market has been able to regain the important 1600 level in the S&P (SPX), likely giving a little confidence boost to equity bulls. Things also appear to be fairly strong, this...

In the past two days the 30-year conventional mortgage rate broke above 4.5% - roughly a 2-year high. Many economists argue that in spite of this spike, we are still some two percent below the...

In the past week, the municipal bond market back-up was exacerbated, on top of an already sloppy six weeks. The culprits this week were the usual suspects: retail selling of bond funds and terrible,...

The Effective yield on high-yield bonds (junk bonds) are at historic lows. Over the past six years -- as the yield broke above resistance of bullish falling wedges -- the S&P 500 wound up...

It was a brilliant call, but she got cowed into submission by the powers that be. She was RIGHT. Unions have created an ungodly cost burden on cities and states. FIrefighters and police officers have...

There has been a large rise in US and European bond yields. This Great Graphic, using Bloomberg data, shows the US (white), German (yellow) and Japanese (green) 10-year yields since the start of the...

I recently sat down with Covestor’s Mike Tarsala to discuss my core-satellite approach in the post-QE Infinity era.Per Tarsala’s article

There is a great bear flag formation on the ProShares UltraShort 20+-Year Treasury (ETF) (TBT). The opposite can be seen on the inverse ETF, the iShares Barclays 20+ Yr Treas. Bond (ETF) (TLT). There...