Buying the safest bonds in the market sounded reasonable in 2020, but TLT investors discovered something the fact sheet never puts in bold: this fund has no maturity date, no recovery date,…
BND has barely moved while stocks surge, and the temptation to cut losses and rotate into equities is growing louder. But the math behind that decision may be working against everyone who…
Washington is floating brand-new tax cuts at the exact moment the federal deficit is blowing past levels not seen since the pandemic, and bond markets are already reacting. Here is what the…
The Fed has been cutting rates, yet long-term Treasury yields are climbing and bond ETFs are swinging wildly in response. Three funds cut through that contradiction in very different ways, and choosing…
Most retirement budgets start with the wrong question. The instinct is to ask, “What yield do I need so the nest egg covers the bills?” Higher yield shrinks the required capital, so…
The choice between iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) and iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:IEF) looks trivial on paper. Both hold only U.S. Treasuries, both charge 0.15%, and both…
Retirees who watched intermediate bond funds bleed principal during the 2022 to 2023 rate shock have spent the last few years hunting for fixed income that pays monthly without the duration trap.…
The pitch for iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond BuyWrite Strategy ETF (BATS:TLTW) is seductive in a jittery economy. You collect a distribution rate of 11.7% while sitting on long-dated Treasuries that are…
If you bought Direxion Daily 20+ Year Treasury Bull 3X Shares (NYSEARCA:TMF) five years ago expecting triple the returns of long Treasuries, your $10,000 is now worth roughly $1,527. The unleveraged version,…
Mark July 29 on the calendar. That is the next scheduled FOMC decision, and according to JPMorgan Asset Management CIO Bob Michael, every Fed meeting is now live for a potential rate…
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) is the default way investors buy long-duration government debt. For its part, TLT holds nothing but U.S. Treasury bonds maturing in more than twenty…
Prior to the start of the Iran War, President Donald Trump had been feuding with Jerome Powell about cutting interest rates. Despite tremendous capital inflows from tariffs, record-low inflation, and a…
A 68-year-old retiree who moved $180,000 out of stocks and into the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) in late 2024 was making a directional rate bet. The pitch was clean:…
The May employment data landed with a thud for bond bulls, with implications for Treasury proxies like the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT). May nonfarm payrolls rose 172,000, the best…
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) has done something this year that surprises a lot of holders. Despite the Federal Reserve cutting rates 75 basis points over the past 12…
