Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Picking interest-rate bottoms and tops is far more complicated than trying to pick stock market bottoms and tops, but this graph will give us some yield levels, focusing on the last decade or since...

Bond yields are rising at a historic pace putting the 40-year bull market in bonds into question. What should conservative investors be doing given their bonds are no longer providing them the...

It’s been a crazy past couple of years for the 10-year U.S. treasury bond yields and interest rates. The crazy extremes have seen rates fall to near zero and jump back up near 3%. We can...

Does a risk-free bond with a seven percent yield interest you? If so, read more about the red-headed stepchild of the bond world that is finally attracting investors.Series I Bonds (I-bonds) are bonds...

On April 14, as 10-year yield spiked to a new multi-year high at 2.84%, I cautioned MPTrader members about possible near-term upside exhaustion. Daily momentum remained well below the previous day's...

Anyone who has their head screwed on straight is now likely really afraid of inflation. And soaring Treasury yields clearly reflect that fear. The US consumer price index for March rose 8.5% on the...

Over the past two years, we have seen inflation soar. And with that has coming rising interest rates. This week’s CPI and PPI data have only confirmed consumers' fears. But how much of the...

It’s been a crazy last couple of years. And that is probably an understatement.2022 is off to a similar start with supply disruptions, surging inflation, and war overseas. Needless to say,...

The US 10-year Treasury yield continued rising on Thursday (Apr. 7), reaching 2.66% — the highest in over three years. The ongoing upside momentum suggests that the benchmark rate will continue...

This post was first published at TopDown Charts US investment grade and high yield spreads jumped earlier this year, but then retreated in late March (albeit within an uptrend). Recent hawkish tones...

French presidential elections are due this month, which means fresh selling of French government bonds on the usual fear of a far-right candidate closing ground behind the pro-European centrist...

Our forecast for bonds last September has held up very well, as did the forecast before that one. Here, we revisit treasuries via the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT). We expect...

Worries of a looming recession intensified late Thursday last week after the yield on the United States 2-Year Treasury bonds hit 2.337% as the yield on United States 10-Year bonds fell to 2.331%,...

Treasury bonds have left a bad taste in investors’ mouths for the past couple of years. And this collective "UGH!" comes after years of solid returns.Will the bull market continue? Or is this...