Bonds Analysis & Opinion

One of the key indicators we track in our bond strategy analysis is global sovereign bond market breadth. This simply captures the proportion of global government bond yields which are trending...

Emerging market bonds have come under pressure along with the rest of the bond market as a sort of Taper 2.0 has hit the market [ECB moving toward taper, BoJ already effectively doing a stealth taper,...

10-Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large speculators decreased their bullish net positions in the 10-Year Note futures markets this week, according to the latest Commitment of Traders...

Last month, the Federal Reserve raised its benchmark interest rate for the second time this year. It was the fourth quarter-point bump since interest rates were slashed to near zero in response to the...

Only a quick article at the moment. This is longer than a tweet-length answer, but didn’t need to be super long.A friend sent me the link to the following article from the FT: “Will UK...

Three things the technical setup is telling us about the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield: The Momentum low of the correction after last year’s advance from 1.32% (7/06/16) to 2.64% (12/16/16)...

Hawkish comments by European Central Bank (ECB) President Mario Draghi helped lift rates around the world yesterday, including Treasury yields. But it’s premature to conclude that recent...

A new report from an Alternative Risk Transfer research service, Artemis, looks at the catastrophe bond and insurance-linked securities market in the (record- breaking) first quarter of 2017.Bond and...

While stocks have done well this year, which would you rather have owned the past 90 days — the S&P 500 or Bond ETF ZROZ? Below looks at the performance of the S&P 500 and ZROZ over the...

10-Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large speculators sharply pushed bullish net positions in the 10-Year Note futures markets higher this week, according to the latest Commitment of...

The latest round of flash manufacturing PMIs saw the "global composite" that we put together fall -0.40 to 53.8 which places it down -0.9pts from the peak in January this year. Within the results...

“The best bond values today will not be the best bond values next year and will certainly not be the best bond values until maturity.” – Sidney Homer, January 1973, Salomon Brothers...

Japan's Ministry of Finance reports portfolio flows on a week weekly basis. It provide more timely, even if less detailed information than contained in the monthly balance of payments data.In the...

Bonds & Related Indicators (and more macro discussion)The target for TLT continues to be around 129. Treasury bonds are in bull trends (remember back a few months ago to all the bond hatred in the...