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 ...
10-Year Note Non-Commercial Speculator Positions: Large speculators boosted their bullish net positions in the 10-Year Note futures markets this week to the highest level in four weeks, according to ...
Let's have a look at a long-term perspective on Treasury yields as of Friday's close. The chart below shows the 10-Year Constant Maturity yield since 1962 along with the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) and ...
Earlier this week the Fed raised short-term interest rates to a range of 1.00 to 1.25%. To many of us, that's still a very low level. In fact you have to go back to October 2008 to find a higher level...
The Federal Reserve on Wednesday hiked interest rates again, asserting that moderate economic growth will continue for the foreseeable future. But confidence appeared to be in short supply via the ...
The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates today – at a time when the Treasury yield spread has become relatively compressed. That’s a warning sign, according to the ...
With the FOMC winding up their June meeting today, the financial news shows and press will be all about whether or not they will vote to increase short term rates, by how much and then immediately ...
Note: We've updated this commentary with data through yesterday's market close. Let's take a closer look at recent activity in US Treasuries. The yield on the 10-year note ended the day at 2.21% and ...
10 Year Treasury Note Non-Commercial Positions: Large speculators reduced their net positions in the 10-year treasury note futures markets last week for a second straight week, according to the ...
Concerns regarding higher interest rates continue to run deep. But you wouldn’t know it from the recent action of the long-term treasury bond which rallied 8% in 3 months since bottoming in ...
The bounce in Treasury yields witnessed after the election of Donald Trump is now decaying in the D.C. swamp. If the Fed continues to ignore this slow growth and deflationary signal from the bond ...
As I observed over the last two weeks, most Fed presidents believe they have achieved their dual mandate – full employment and inflation near 2%. Today, I want to look at the counter-arguments ...
