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This week is chock full of members of the Federal Reserve system speaking. Unfortunately, that means a whole host of dovish versus hawkish comments about interest rates.
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This might not be a high over the past year, but the post-election moves just made a 10-year Treasury yield hit a high not seen since January.
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With a presidential election that is just about over and with economic data coming out so mixed, there are a lot of things that can sway the Federal Reserve's appetite to raise interest rates in...
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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 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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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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Is it even remotely possible that a government deficit of $113 billion in a single month can be construed as good news? Apparently so, at least on a relative basis. The United States government...
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Treasury yields may still be too low for most sensible U.S. investors to chase today, but the yields on long-term rates have started ticking back up from the post-Brexit lows. Maybe a record stock...
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The demand for safe-haven trades is becoming almost zany. It seems unthinkable that there was nearly $10 trillion in sovereign debt with negative yields just a few weeks ago. Now the tally for...
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Has the good news on the Treasury budget already run its course? The Treasury showed that it saw a surplus of $106.5 billion in April of 2016. The Wall Street Journal’s published consensus...
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Wasn't 2016 supposed to be the year that U.S. interest rates finally began to rise? Now many of the top investment banks have taken down their interest rate forecasts.
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24/7 Wall St. decided to look closer at the budget deficit figures to see what was the driving force here, and to show what was expected and how this stacks up to other periods.
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