Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Holding bonds has been a mostly painful experience so far in 2021, although a few corners of fixed-income have escaped the damage, based on a set of proxy ETFs through yesterday’s close (Mar....

Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, bailed out the U.S. Federal Reserve by pushing out his own central bank chief without putting a parachute on the country’s currency. The Turkish...

Last week increasing bond yields had the market worried. Come Monday, the 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) gapped higher and ended the day up 1.12% This fared especially well for growth stocks...

This is a look at two ETFs: the granddaddy of them all, SPDR® S&P 500 (NYSE:SPY) (the S&P 500) and the high-yield corporate fund symbol iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF...

Today is the big day, of course. Powell time again. Two hours before the market closes, the announcement rolls out, and half an hour later, the Fed chair does his press conference.As always, caution...

When studying Bond Management, and Money and Banking and the like in business school and the CFA program, the one thing that always stuck out to me in terms of academic discussions of inflation and...

After a trending decline that was stronger than expected, and with FOMC scheduled this week, we are watching for a possible bounce from a support area in treasury bond futures and the iShares 20+ Year...

A concession has built in emerging markets. The question is whether it is enough. The answer is, probably not. Synchronised global growth in the quarters ahead can and should prove supportive, as...

Wednesday is the next FOMC Meeting. What if the 10-year yield continues to climb heading into Wednesday's policy statement? Suppose yields backs up to 1.80%. Will Fed Chair Jerome Powell be...

The bond market has had a bad 12 months as interest rates bottomed in March of 2020. Popular government bond ETF (iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT)) has lost more than 15% in the past...

Investors moved into uncharted waters as yields on 10-year Treasuries, which continued to rise, indicated some skepticism about the Federal Reserve’s insistence it will maintain monetary...

Regular readers might recall back at the start of the year I published my 10 Charts to Watch for 2021. The number 2 chart showed the global backlogs indicator, I noted:"(the issue of backlogs) has 2...

The US 2-Year TreasuryThe 2-year Treasury yield at 0.147 currently trades directly under its next vital point at 0.1511. A break above and the range to the next average becomes 0.1511 to 0.9086 or 75...

For the first time in decades market is concerned about inflation Is this a temporary or persistent problem? CPI and Treasury auctions once again the focus of markets Watch the...