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Russ Koesterich: Last week, the US Treasury market suffered its worst losing streak since 2006. This rapid risein yields has prompted investors to wonder whether the 30 year rally in bonds is finally Read more…
Mike Larson: Interest rates are the lifeblood of the capital markets and the real economy. Lower rates and easy money fuel asset bubbles and economic activity. Higher rates and tighter money pop bubbles and restrain growth. It’s as simple as that! Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: U.S. Treasuries were the talk of the town in 2011 as this asset class shielded investors from the rampant volatility that ripped through equity markets as debt woes on both sides of the Read more…
Matt Tucker: In my Welcome to the World of Fixed Income ETFs blog last month, I touched on the differences between how individual bonds and bond ETFs trade. For me the differences between these markets, and what it means for investors to put bonds onto an exchange through an ETF, are some of the Read more…
Corey Rosenbloom: TLT is a popular proxy for traders and investors to watch for bond prices, or to use as a hedging or trading vehicle. Read more…
John Rubino: For years now, US government bonds have looked like terrible investments, what with those trillion-dollar deficits and multiple wars and all. But Treasuries just kept rising, earning their owners nice returns and making their critics seem like financial illiterates who didn’t know Read more…
US stock futures are higher Thursday morning ahead of a clutch of data including manufacturing activity and jobless claims. It has been a quiet morning as the big bond debate is taking place across the world. Everyone is trying to figure out the Read more…
Karen Schenone: Ever wonder how to use all the fixed income ETFs out there? We have a tool for that! Read more…
David Zeiler: More experts are saying what most Americans have suspected for years – the real inflation rate is much higher than the government is willing to admit. Officially, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) says the inflation rate, or Consumer Price Index (CPI), for 2011 was 3%. Read more…
Michael Snyder: Ronald Reagan once famously declared that inflation is a tax, but sadly most Americans did not really grasp what he was talking about. If the American people truly understood what inflation was doing to them, they would be screaming bloody murder about monetary policy. Read more…
Stoyan Bojinov: Equity indexes climbed into bright green territory yesterday as investors on Wall Street rejoiced over several encouraging economic data releases. Buying euphoria quickly spread after the latest jobless claims report came in better-than-expected; a total of 348,000 people filed for Read more…
Michael Johnston: Assets in bond exchange-traded products have been climbing steadily for the past several years, reflecting an increased degree of comfort among investors with the idea of achieving fixed income exposure through the exchange-traded wrapper. The bond ETF universe has expanded Read more…
Mike Larson: In Europe, despite news of what seems like the hundredth Greek deal, default is all but inevitable down the road. In the Middle East, tensions are ratcheting up in Syria and Iran, with the odds of an Israeli military strike steadily climbing. And here in the United States, many economic Read more…
US stock futures have surged to positive territory Thursday amid reports of a Greek debt deal. Small snags had been holding up the final approval of a deal between the Greek government and European finance ministers, and it appears those have finally been worked Read more…
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