Russ Koesterich: Call #1: Reiterate Long-Term Overweight of Corporate and Municipal Debt Over Treasuries Read more…

NYSE:LQD, NYSE:MUB

Russ Koesterich: While emerging markets are not without their share of macroeconomic problems, they are not experiencing the same sovereign debt problems as their developed market neighbors. In fact, the world’s sovereign debt problems are centered in developed markets such as Europe, the United Read more…

NYSE:EMB, NYSE:LEMB

Matt Tucker: One of my favorite fixed income topics is yield. Really, it is. What’s amazing to me is how many different types of yield exist — for a bond or bond fund Read more…

NYSE:AGG

Eric Dutram: ProShares, the Bethesda, Maryland-based ETF issuer best known for its suite of leveraged and inverse products, announced plans to expand its offering in the Treasury bond space with its latest SEC filing. In the document, the company detailed four new funds that are vastly different from anything else Read more…

NYSE:CPI, NYSE:EDV, NYSE:ZROZ, RRF

Eric Dutram: Due to the extremely weak economy at home and growing troubles abroad, many analysts had looked for the Fed to add more to its easing programs far beyond the pretty much guaranteed ’Operation Twist’ Read more…

NYSE:TLT

Scott Pluschau: The iShares 20+ year Treasury ETF (NYSE:TLT) is forming a potential “Exhaustion Gap” on the daily chart. TLT had a “Breakaway gap” back in July 2011, and has now had three continuation gaps since then. Read more…

NYSE:TLT

Corey Rosenbloom: What does the current Cross-Market landscape look like after Wednesday’s Federal Reserve meeting/announcement?

Let’s take a look to see the current structure along with the big market winners and losers. Read more…

NYSE:IEF, NYSE:TLT

Stoyan Bojinov: The roller coaster ride continues for investors as equity indexes oscillated between positive and negative territory on Tuesday in anticipation of the much awaited FOMC meeting tomorrow. Investor sentiment regarding the euro zone is quite uncertain and seems to change from hopeful Read more…

NYSE:SHY

Eric Dutram: Although the American budget situation continues to be dire, investors still appear to have a robust appetite for Treasury bonds. Demand for 30 Year Bonds, which carry the greatest levels of interest rate risk, hit a bid/cover ratio of 2.85 in the most recent auction, the best since March. With that being said Read more…

NYSE:TLT

Michael Johnston: PowerShares, one of the leading providers of alternative weighted ETFs, announced today the latest addition to its fixed income lineup. The new Fundamental Investment Grade Corporate Bond Portfolio (NYSE:PFIG) will offer an alternative means of accessing high quality corporate bonds Read more…

NYSE:CBND, NYSE:HYG, NYSE:JNK, NYSE:PFIG, PHB

Eric Dutram: With all the money printing from the Fed and gold approaching historic levels, it is clear that many investors are growing increasingly worried about the prospect of inflation striking their portfolios in the near term.  Since the economy still remains incredibly weak, more quantitative easing cannot be ruled out at Read more…

NYSE:IEF, NYSE:TIP

Matt Tucker:  The municipal bond market has come under pressure in the past year as investors fret about the ability of states and municipalities to repay their loans. To help mitigate those worries, Matt Tucker, Head of iShares Fixed Income Strategy, says investors are using ETFs to access the Read more…

ETF BASIC NEWS

Scott Pluschau:  The iShares 7-10 year Treasury ETF (NYSE:IEF) has been forming an immature balance area in the weekly time frame. Tuesday, September 6^th, 2011, IEF gapped up to a new 52 week high and closed down on the day. I marked this with a grey oval on the Daily chart. Read more…

NYSE:IEF

Kevin Feldman:  Last week a colleague asked me if, given all the focus on investing for income this year, the “i” in iShares might come to stand for income. He was kidding, but he had a serious point too: With government bonds generating historically low yields—the 10-year Treasury broke Read more…

NYSE:HDV, NYSE:LQD, OEF

EconMatters:  PIMCO who specializes in Bonds, having the largest bond fund in the world could not have been more wrong about an asset class, which is surprising considering their experience in this sector. Bill Gross`s official declaration that his firm was shorting the US Treasury Market on April Read more…

NYSE:IEF, NYSE:TBF, NYSE:TBT, NYSE:TLT