Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Exactly one year ago I wrote, “long bonds enter the blowoff stage” (and “a few more thoughts on the long bond blowoff“). Since then the 30-year Treasury yield has risen 40% and...

We closely follow the bond insurers because they remain an important part of the municipal market, and they are integral to our Insured Puerto Rico Strategy.Cumberland exited all uninsured Puerto Rico...

One of the key indicators we track in our bond strategy analysis is global sovereign bond-market breadth. This simply captures the proportion of global government bond yields that are trending up/down...

One of the key indicators we track in our bond strategy analysis is global sovereign bond market breadth. This simply captures the proportion of global government bond yields which are trending...

Emerging market bonds have come under pressure along with the rest of the bond market as a sort of Taper 2.0 has hit the market [ECB moving toward taper, BoJ already effectively doing a stealth taper,...

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

Only a quick article at the moment. This is longer than a tweet-length answer, but didn’t need to be super long.A friend sent me the link to the following article from the FT: “Will UK...

Three things the technical setup is telling us about the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield: The Momentum low of the correction after last year’s advance from 1.32% (7/06/16) to 2.64% (12/16/16)...

Hawkish comments by European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi helped lift rates around the world yesterday, including Treasury yields. But it’s premature to conclude that recent...

A new report from an Alternative Risk Transfer research service, Artemis, looks at the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market in the (record- breaking) first quarter of 2017.Bond and...

The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond (NASDAQ:TLT) is now a buck from its target of 129. Tell me, where is all that mania about rising interest rates and the likes of the “R.I.P. Bond Bull...

While stocks have done well this year, which would you rather have owned the past 90 days — the S&P 500 or Bond ETF ZROZ? Below looks at the performance of the S&P 500 and ZROZ over the...

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

The latest round of flash manufacturing PMIs saw the "global composite" that we put together fall -0.40 to 53.8 which places it down -0.9pts from the peak in January this year. Within the results...