Bonds Analysis & Opinion

10-Year Treasuries will need to hold above critical short-term support at 125,50 to maintain hopes for a comeback. The daily trend is down as long as price is lower than 126,50. Slightly hawkish...

What do McDonald’s (NYSE:MCD), Philip Morris (NYSE:PM), Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT), Kimberly-Clark (NYSE:KMB), and Target (NYSE:TGT) have in common? Yes, they’re all large-cap stocks that pay...

Weekly CFTC COT Net Speculator Report | 10-Year US Treasury Note CFTC Futures data shows speculators bearish at -162,524 contractsU.S. 10-Year Treasuries: Large 10-Year Note futures traders sharply...

Consumers often gripe that government price data understate the true nature of inflation.Nonetheless, it’s safe to say that the cost of goods and services has been rising at a steadily slower...

We've been talking recently about the big decline in oil and how it may be impacting other elements of the world's financial markets. There is one more observation that I thought may be worth adding...

While wondering what to write about today I remembered seeing something that was shocking even though I was aware of it. I have not paid much attention recently to 10 yr. yields in the Eurozone. The...

We're now a bit over a month beyond the end of the Fed's latest round of Quantitative Easing, so let's take a quick look at what's been happening for US Treasuries. The yields on the U.S. 10-, 20-...

The Bond Buyer Visible Supply represents the amount of municipal bonds to be offered by dealers over the next 30 days. This week we have seen a spike of over $18 billion in supply. This spike is in a...

The 10-Year T-Note has confirmed a new price channel (navy blue on chart above) within a megaphone (pink on chart below). The price is coming to the critical decision point within that price...

Weekly CFTC COT Net Speculator Report | US 10 Year US Treasury Note Large Speculator 10 year note bearish positions rise for 3rd week10 Year Treasuries: Large 10-Year Note futures traders pushed...

SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond (ARCA:JNK) has been forming a triangle (navy blue on chart) since spring of 2012. The triangle formed across VWAP of a megaphone (red on chart) that’s been...

Self-help guru Tony Robbins is out with a new book which offers a slew of financial advice including an “All Weather Portfolio” (AWP). Without delving into too much detail (others...

We’ve had a tougher year in our balanced and fixed income accounts, mainly because like the 99% of the other money managers in the universe of money management, we thought interest rates would...

Since the S&P 500 bottomed at 1820 on October 15, it is up roughly 12.5% and has seen only 6 down days in the last month. According to trading desks, steady growth in the U.S. and China,...