Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: 10-Year US Treasury Note CFTC Futures data shows speculators decreased on standing long positions 10 Year Treasury Note Non-Commercial Positions: Large 10-year treasury...

The municipal bond market had a good first quarter in 2016. Overall yields have declined, with the AAA scale declining across the yield spectrum. Muni yields, however, did not drop as much as Treasury...

Near term U.S. 10-Year note yield outlook:In the Mar 16th email and the market near its recent highs at 2.00% (both a 50% retracement from the June 2015 high at 2.50% and the broken neckline of the...

Until last September, the Federal Reserve seemed to play down the market-based measures of inflation expectations, preferring the surveys that showed views were anchored. At the September 2015 FOMC...

10 year Treasuries returned could not sustain the breakout from the “bullish W” formation Original post

The yield on the Japanese government’s 10-year paper traded negative yesterday for the 17th straight session. When Haruhiko Kuroda first announced his negative rate experimentation, the 10-year...

Let's take a closer look at US Treasuries since the Fed rate hike and recent market volatility. The yield on the 10-Year note ended the day Friday at 1.88%, which is at the lower end of the...

Bond Shortage!On Friday, yield on Japanese 10-year bonds hit a record low of -0.135%. According to Bloomberg, the chief strategist of Bank of America Merrill Lynch (NYSE:BAC) in Tokyo stated those...

Weekly Large Trader COT Report: 10 Year US Treasury Note CFTC Futures data shows speculators raised bullish bets to +68,087 contracts 10 Year Treasury Note Non-Commercial Positions: Large 10-year...

Diverse forces coalesce each minute to form the market pricing of a sovereign bond. American Treasury 10-year notes function as the world’s US dollar sovereign benchmark. The German 10-year...

High Yield Bonds became a big topic of discussion in the market last summer. With the big fall in oil prices the topic making the rounds was that all the High Yield debt used to finance the shale...

Here's why it's time to by long-term U.S. treasuries (NYSE:TLT).The rising trend line off the July, 2015 low. The bull-flag pattern. The pull back and attemted bounce off the Fibonacci 50% retracement...

Last month, Japan’s 10-year government bonds traded with a negative yield for the first time in history.Germany’s 10-year bonds are yielding 0.24%. And you thought we had it bad? By...

Yesterday I wrote about the crowded short trade that boosted energy futures 40-50% from the lows of only a few weeks ago. A related crowded trade was the short-inflation trade, and it also was related...