Bonds Analysis & Opinion

A quantitative run through of the Swedish Fixed Income market, starting with the Riksbank and money markets before moving on to government and mortgage bonds. To Read the Entire Report Please Click on...

This week, I am participating in a school-style debate at the Global Fixed Income Institute’s conferences in Madrid where the question before the house is whether or not inflation will resurface...

Weekly CFTC COT Net Speculator Report | 10 Year US Treasury Note CFTC Futures data shows speculators decreased bearish bets 10-Year Treasuries Non-Commercial Positions: Large 10-year treasury note...

Bond troubles could just be starting. This chart looks at the 10-year and 30-year yields. Each could be making Head & Shoulders bottoming patterns. If this pattern read is correct, each are...

Yields on Greek and low-rated euro zone bonds rose on Friday after Greece’s economy minister rejected its creditors’ proposals for a reforms-for-cash deal that the country needs to avoid...

Prior to recession, the yield curve becomes inverted, as indicated by the Forward Rate Ratio between the 2-year and 10-year U.S. Treasury yields (FRR2-10) being less than 1.00. The FRR2-10 has...

Despite the popular meme, interest rates are actually going up in this rising rate environment. They have been since January. If you would like to debate how long it will last or how far they will go...

It's easy to find talk these days about the Fed moving interest rates higher. Humbly, I don’t know what Janet will do next. Could it be more important what billions of free-thinking people do...

Once again we begin with the Eurozone which seems to be the epicenter of global market volatility. One report in particular sent shock waves through the fixed income markets.Yesterday I talked about...

As John Maynard Keynes famously stated “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do, Sir?”. I am very close to changing my mind on the direction of long-term interest rates....

Decline to 1.843 completed wave X. From this level, U.S. 10-Year rallied in wave ((w)) in the form of a triple correction (w)-(x)-(y)-(x)-(z) where wave (w) ended at 1.989, wave (x) ended at 1.907,...

A “black swan” event occurred at a gathering of outlaw bikers on Sunday, May 17 in Waco, Texas. According to news stories a fight broke out between several motorcycle gangs at the Twin...

For the first time in its country’s history, Portugal sold 6 month T-bills at a negative yield. The 300 million euros' ($333 million) worth of bills due in November 2015 sold at an average yield...

It is a fascinating trend -- something every investor must be aware of. It’s yet another reason interest rates are likely to stay lower for far longer than most folks ever expected.If rates...