Bonds Analysis & Opinion

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...

This matters......a lot:And here's another look at Bond fund flows of late/very similar time frame:And here's a look at Credit Suisse's Fixed Income Risk appetite gauge: Short term, I believe rates...

The bond market selloff after the FOMC meeting and Chairman Bernanke's surprising specifics about exiting QE was quite stunning. However, his hawkish position was supported by yesterday's release by...

If yields on U.S. Treasury bonds keep rising, things are going to get very messy. As I write this, the yield on 10 year U.S. Treasures has risen to 2.51 percent. If that keeps going up, it is going to...

Just about every economists and major market player has come out of the closet as a bear on the bond market. Recently we’ve seen massive outflows from bond funds and even on days like yesterday...

It’s been a long time since we had a bear market in bonds. Some may remember 1994, when Greenspan shocked the market from its complacency with a series of hikes in the Fed Funds rate. Events...

Aren’t Fed days fun? Bernanke gets to put on his suit and comb his beard to go out and talk to the nice reporters and tell the world what the FOMC thinks about the U.S. economy. Luckily, we get...

While government data continue to show a lack of inflation in the U.S. economy, the bond market screams the opposite.The Consumer Price Index (CPI), the most commonly quoted measure of inflation,...

On June 14, it was announced that Detroit will not make a $39.7-million payment on unsecured municipal bonds worth $2.0 billion. This makes Detroit the most populated city to default on its debt,...