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…
Peter Schiff has spent his career predicting bond market trouble. On the latest episode of his podcast he thinks the trouble finally has nowhere left to hide. Oil prices have softened, war…
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) is the fund people buy when they want the safest thing in the world. Treasuries don’t default. The U.S. government prints the currency it…
The yield on the front end of the Treasury curve has been doing something unusual for a supposedly boring asset class, and the iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:SGOV) is the…
The Federal Reserve has already trimmed its policy rate by 0.75 percentage points over the past year, leaving the upper bound at 3.75%. The question facing rate-sensitive sectors is what happens if…
Treasury yields near 4% on intermediate maturities are the highest sustained income levels from government-backed securities in roughly two decades, and a fund that captures them at a cost of 0.03% per…
If you’re looking for monthly dividends with high yields, there are more ways to derive that income without chasing significant risk. The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT), Colterpoint Net Lease Real…
The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:TLT) pays a 4.8% dividend yield backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. That is about as creditworthy an income source…
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