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PIIGS Watch: $2 Billion Bond Offering From Spain Brings New U.S. Funding Sources

Posted: February 20, 2013 at 1:06 pm

It looks as though things are becoming less and less dire by the week in Europe. Pressure continues to abate against the nation of the PIIGS. Even if austerity protests ...
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Another Big Long-Term Bullish Prediction for MLPs

Posted: February 19, 2013 at 1:47 pm

If your investment objective relies heavily on income-paying assets and dividends, chances are good that you have either ventured into the realm of master limited partnerships (MLPs). If you haven't, ...
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30-Year Treasury Auction Meets Solid Demand

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 1:19 pm

The United States Treasury's 30-Year Treasury Bond auction just went off and the results were looking a bit better than we would have been expecting even this morning. We had ...
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An Angie’s List for Debt Ratings?

Posted: February 14, 2013 at 12:50 pm

The difference between professional services reviews posted to Angie’s List Inc. (NASDAQ: ANGI) and book reviews posted at Amazon.com Inc. (NASDAQ: AMZN) or the number of video views counted at ...
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Dell Likely to Be Cut to Junk-Bond Credit Rating After Buyout

Posted: February 5, 2013 at 3:26 pm

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) is trading up only about 1% now that its formal buyout has surfaced. Now that Michael Dell is using private equity as an investor and using ...
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Lower Treasury Borrowing Needs Ahead: Good News and Bad News

Posted: February 4, 2013 at 4:41 pm

If the United States is lowering its projected borrowing needs for the quarterly forecasting, that is supposed to be a good thing. The United States is swimming in debt and ...
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Bill Gross Warns of Credit Supernova, but Gives Six Investing Stategies

Posted: January 31, 2013 at 3:41 pm

Bill Gross of PIMCO, aka the Bond King, probably got tired of having to fade the heat after his call about the death of the cult of equity. Bill Gross ...
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5-Year Treasury Auction Confirms Trend Continuation of Higher Interest Rates

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 1:20 pm

Are investors still buying Treasury notes with their low rates of return? It seems so, although interest rates have been ticking higher as investors are committing new funds to stocks ...
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How Low Can Junk Bond Spreads Go?

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 11:55 am

24/7 Wall St. tracks the spreads that corporations have to pay above Treasury rates to fund their cost of borrowing. This is one key barometer for measuring the market's risk ...
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Investors Still Buying Treasury TIPS At Negative Interest Rates

Posted: January 24, 2013 at 1:45 pm

The government is somehow managing to borrow money at what are negative interest rates right now via the Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS. When a TIPS matures, the investor is ...
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Millionaire Investors: Over 70% Plan to Buy Stocks in 2013, Brazil Is Better Than China

Posted: January 16, 2013 at 2:11 pm

Many investors follow and track inflows and outflows of investor funds. After all, following the trends where the money is headed is nothing new. But what about not worrying about ...
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Stocks to Buy for the Coming Rise in Interest Rates (UBS, AMTD, SCHW, LNC, UNM, HIG)

Posted: January 15, 2013 at 9:42 am

We recently wrote that shorting the Treasury bond market may very well be the next biggest short-sale trade since the subprime mortgage short. While rates have dipped a little in the ...
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Junk Bond Spreads Continue to Tighten, Another Yield Bubble Starting to Form

Posted: January 11, 2013 at 10:31 am

If the spread of junk bonds keeps contracting as investors clamor for yield in an environment where yields are so low, they are going to be priced where investment-grade bonds ...
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Solid $13 Billion 30-Year Treasury Long Bond Auction

Posted: January 10, 2013 at 1:45 pm

Today's 30-Year Treasury Bond auction, the long bond auction, managed to look better than yesterday's 10-year Treasury Note auction. Yesterday's tone looked as though it was going to set a ...
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10-Year Treasury Auction Sets Poor Tone for 30-Year Auction

Posted: January 9, 2013 at 1:29 pm

Treasury prices had firmed in recent days, taking the yield of the 10-Year Treasury note further away from breaking back above the 2.0% mark. Now a new 10-year auction has ...
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