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Mike Larson: In all my years of following the interest rate markets, I can’t recall a moment like this. The so-called “experts” on Wall Street are completely, utterly obsessed with a simple question: “Will Fed officials wave their magic monetary wand again or won’t they?” Read more…
Ron Rowland: As you may have heard, debt-ridden nations face sharply higher borrowing costs. Spain’s ten-year government bonds are closing in on the 7 percent level. Read more…
Keith Fitz-Gerald: In the wake of Friday’s disastrous jobs number, 10-year Treasury Note yields finally fell through the 1.5% level, trading as low 1.44% on the day. Read more…
Martin Hutchinson: With interest rates at near-record low levels it appears that the only way for rates to go is up. As the U.S. economy moderately strengthens, that means the bond bubble will begin to leak. Even darker, the bubble might just burst altogether. Read more…
Monty Agarwal: U.S. Treasury yields moved sharply higher after the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met earlier this month. The chart below shows the change in the yield curve from a month ago to when the yields hit their peak and where they are now. Read more…
Jack Crooks: Everyone is rightfully excited over the potential for a strong rebound in the U.S. economy. And there is nothing short of the potential of global recession at stake should U.S. growth sputter. What is the key risk to U.S. growth going forward? Read more…
Mark Wiedman: As investors continue to grapple with low yields and volatile markets, a growing number are beginning to realize that the bond strategies of the past are just not behaving the way they Read more…
Tom Essaye: Last week most of the financial media focused on the fact that the stock market made new highs for the year and hit the highest level since 2006. Indeed impressive. But I don’t believe that was Read more…
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…
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…
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…
Jason Cimpl: The yield on U.S. bonds is abysmal. While I realize that I don’t need to tell retirees something they already know, such a low interest rate is a crisis that faces many American citizens. Read more…
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