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For those who view negative interest rates on sovereign debt as a tax, there is good news. For those who want to use sovereign debt as a means of building wealth rather than just parking assets for...
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Hedge funds have run into their share of controversy in recent years. It has proven to be harder and harder to consistently outperform the markets and to continually deliver absolute returns...
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With 2016 coming to a close, and with the presidential election making most of the public neurotic, investors need to consider several things about yields in general — particularly in junk bonds.
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The Federal Reserve has released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee from September. It was already known that three votes had been cast to raise interest rates. Those are the hawks....
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The U.S. Treasury just held a 10-year Treasury Note auction, and this was going to be a highly watched auction. After all, U.S. interest rates have ticked higher almost daily now to the point that...
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It turns out that the investing community may have no choice but to own junk-rated and speculative bonds, directly or indirectly.
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The inverse relationship between prices and yields translates to one serious issue for bond holders: the value of those bonds they bought before recent days is dropping as yields rise.
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If you have been wondering if we are in a bond market bubble with insultingly low interest rates, maybe you should hear what one of the top bond managers has to say on the matter.
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Rio Tinto remains one of the world's top mining and metals companies, and now it has launched a $3 billion debt reduction plan as part of its capital management efforts.
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There is still a massive amount of sovereign debt trading around the planet with negative yields. Yep, you get less money back than you invested.
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The FOMC meeting is key because many of the regional Federal Reserve branch presidents and Fed Chair Janet Yellen have been jawboning about the need to raise interest rates.
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The trailing 12-month default rate on U.S. high-yield bonds slipped from 5.1% at the end of July to 4.9% in August.
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If you haven’t noticed the move higher in bond yields, you might want to pay attention and see what has happened on the long-end of the Treasury yield curve. This has been driven largely by...
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You might not have seen the end nor heard the end of the world of negative interest rates yet. Just don’t tell that to longer-term and intermediate-term German bund traders. Short term and...
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Any time that investors see a stock down 6% or more, they probably aren’t going to be too keen on hearing that the drop is actually supposed to be good news. If that big drop is from a...
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