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Back on Backlogs… and Bond-Yield Back-Ups: In this chart we map the path of the global backlogs indicator and the US 10-year Treasury yield. I think it’s fair to say that there are a number of good...
A triple whammy from the Federal Reserve to tighten monetary policy sent Treasuries into a tailspin last week and boosted yields on the 10-year note to 1.77% by Friday. On Monday, yields spiked above...
This post was first published at TopDown Charts The US 10-year Treasury yield spiked to 1.80% recently leading to a host of important intermarket impacts Global yields have also increased, led by a...
The US 10-year Treasury yield rose to a new pandemic high. The increase signals a higher probability of the benchmark rate pushing above levels reached before the pandemic started in early 2020....
All the talk in the market these days are that "rates are moving higher" globally, and they are not wrong. And when trying to gauge if the US bond market will continue lower (10-year yields towards...
Focus turns to syndicated bond deals, with borrowers hoping for no new volatility from this week’s key economic releases. By and large, rates markets seem to have acquired a good deal of Covid...
As counter-intuitive as that may seem in a world of ostensibly rising interest rates, Bonds, by way of the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT), have closed their price gap and look poised...
Inflation is rising, the Federal Reserve is reacting slowly, and yields on the 10-year Treasury remain stubbornly low, fluctuating gently below 1.5%. What does this mean? Analysts are starting to...
The US 10-year Treasury is sitting at a major price crossroads level, as shown on the following monthly chart. The tightening triangle formation on the Balance of Power, shown in histogram format, is...
The recent rise in the 10-year U.S. Treasury yield has stalled. It’s unclear if this is a pause before the upside trend resumes, or the early stages of new leg down. The sharp rise in inflation...
There are people who listen to Boris Johnson as if he was someone to take seriously. Some of them even write commentary on the bond market. So when the British prime minister said Sunday there is a...
How’s that allocation to bonds working out this year? Probably pretty good, if you favored Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS). With less than four weeks left to the trading year,...
Analysts scrutinizing historical trends are befuddled by a market that reflects a situation with no precedent. We have a pandemic that won’t end and a Federal Reserve that is dragging its feet on...
US junk bonds and several slices of foreign fixed-income markets led a mixed run of returns for the major asset classes last week, based on a set of ETFs through Friday’s close (Dec. 3). The top...
The yield curve is flattening. I don’t cheerlead a given view, but if I were to do that, I’d be cheering for a yield curve flattener to put a correction to inflationist dogmatists quoting...