Bonds Analysis & Opinion

As the S&P 500 declined 4.1% in dramatic fashion on Monday, the futures on the 10-year notes (/ZN) gained 1.16 points or 1%. This “flight to safety” trade is common when equities...

Mediocre demand for Wednesday’s auction of $24 billion in 10-year Treasury notes probably reflects worries over rising deficit spending.In that auction, yields obviously were not attractive...

US 10-Year Treasury Yields have now tagged the apex of two rising intersecting trendlines (the high of February's candle) and is currently trading a bit below, as shown on the following monthly...

The Bank of England meets on Thursday and while no one expects a move, it has little to do with the recent market volatility. The FTSE 100 is poised to snap a six-day 7%+ slide. The FTSE 250 fell for...

I’ve recently been seeing a certain defense of equities that I think is interesting. It runs something like this: The recent rise in interest rates, which helped cause the stock market swoon, is...

The bond markets have experienced a hiccup in the first part of this year, with the 10-year bond rising 45 basis points in yield, to 2.85% from 2.40%, and the 30-year bond rising 37 basis points in...

Fierce forces at work on interest rates…or are we just seeing a mild adjustment? There is no way to know. We are referring to US Treasury interest rates on bills, notes and bonds. Some bullets...

10-Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large bond market speculators continued to remain very bearish in the 10-Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of...

The single-most important bond in the world is the US 10-Year Treasury bond.According to modern financial theory, this bond, with a duration that is meant to cover a full economic cycle, is generally...

Some claim the yield curve is flattening, others say it's steepening. The steepening side started to gain more credibility from January 2. With U.S. yields on a tear, one might think the curve is...

Note: We've updated this commentary with data through today's market close.Let's take a closer look at recent activity in US Treasuries. The yield on the 10-year note ended January at 2.72% and the...

The single most important bond in the world is the United States 10-Year Treasury bond.According to modern financial theory, this bond, with a duration that is meant to cover a full economic cycle, is...

The question has gone viral lately, courtesy of the recent rise in interest rates. The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield, for instance, edged up to 2.73% yesterday, the highest in nearly four years....

The following two monthly charts show that 10-year Treasury Yields (TNX) are on the rise.The first chart shows that it has popped above the upper edge of a very long-term downtrend channel and is...