Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Rates rose on Friday to their highest level in some time, with the 10-year closing around 97 bps. It doesn’t sound like much, but consider that the 10-year rate was at 50 bps on August 4, and...

Investors who missed the brief spike in government bond yields when a succession of COVID-19 vaccines aced clinical trials may regret losing the chance to get a whopping yield of 0.97% on a 10-year...

China's euro-denominated bond issue last Wednesday met with strong demand, getting €18 billion in orders for the €4 billion bond sale as it priced the 5-year tranche for a negative yield for...

10-Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:Large bond speculators raised their bullish net positions in the 10-Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders...

European governments will be issuing massive amounts of green bonds in the coming months as investors—including central banks—clamor for opportunities for sustainable investing.The EU...

If there was any question about how highly strung investors are over COVID-19, the announcement by Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ:BNTX) on Monday that preliminary trials showed their...

Holy Cow a big move in interest rates is taking place! Does this mean an important breakout/higher interest rates are about to happen? Could be! This chart looks at the 10-yearyield on a weekly basis...

Yields on US Treasuries took a dive on Wednesday as the prospect that Republicans will keep control of the Senate, even if President Donald Trump doesn’t win re-election, dimmed hopes that a...

Predicting the end of the secular decline in interest rates has been a hardy perennial—and perennially wrong. Given this history, any observer of bond yields must be wary of declaring that a...

Here we go again. After plunging to new lows, the calls for the end of the “bond bull” market mount each time rates rise. Is this time the end of the “bond bull?” Or, is there...

Orders for the first issue of EU bonds to fund its Support to Mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency (SURE) program smashed bond market records as investors sought €233 billion in bonds...

Shares and bonds in emerging markets, along with high-yield bonds ex-US, led returns for the major asset classes last week, based on a set of ETFs. Buoyed by a weak US Dollar index, which is close to...

10-Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions:Large bond speculators decreased their bullish net positions in the 10-Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of...

Betting against long-term bonds has been a losing strategy for several decades and this form of contrarian pain has been especially deep in the past two years. It’s debatable if it’s...