Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Actually, negative rates have already reached America’s shore, albeit in selected bond markets for specific maturities. Current “real” yields for inflation-indexed Treasuries for the...

co-authored by Jack ScottOver the past few decades, the central banks, including the Federal Reserve (Fed), have relied increasingly on interest rates to help modify economic growth. Interest rate...

Investors hoping for some relief from August’s whipsaw trading may not find it in September.Next month, several major issues seem to be looming on the horizon, riddled with uncertainties. For...

The relationship between short-term market interest rates and the interest rates set by the Fed is a complicated one. The market makes predictions about what the Fed is going to do and moves in...

Futures pick up where they left off Friday with equity prices and bond yields lower. Sunday Evening Futures Equities DownGold UpTreasury Yields Down As of 1:36 AM Central on Monday morning,...

In January 2018, Bill Gross was at it again. Famous for being the longtime public face of PIMCO, he’d acquired as much notoriety for being the boy who cried bear. By the way he talked and by...

Global bond yields have moved sharply lower since the middle of July when the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Federal Reserve (FED) both indicated accommodative monetary policy was on the way....

The odds of a double rate cut in September plunged from 40% recently to 31% last week then to 0% today. Bond Market Screaming for Cuts Yield Synopsis Despite a yield rally on the...

The negative interest rate policies of the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) have created a Neverland in the global fixed-income markets. An 8/18 Bloomberg story...

The past couple of weeks have been breathtaking for bond investors and observers of the bond market. The yield on the 30-year Treasury bond is now at a record low—it dipped under 2% this...

The following daily chart of the MSCI World (ex-USA) Index shows that price has dropped, once again, to just above the 1800 level (as of last Friday's close).The MACD histogram and RSI indicators are...

The High Yield Corporate Bonds ETF (NYSE:HYG) is at an interesting juncture.There are, potentially, two uptrend lines that one could apply to form a large long-term triangle pattern on the following...

Rising worries about the global economy triggered a strong wave of fixed-income buying last week, propelling US bonds to the top of the performance ledger for the major asset classes, based on a set...

Quickly recapping, equities experienced their worst week so far this year, and bonds soared as investors sought safety amid an escalation of the US – Sino trade war. The US and UK yield curves...