Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Short Sterling Technical Levels Sept 14 Support at 9939 (December/February high), 9936/35, 9932/31, 9927, 9924/23, 9920/19 (December low). Resistance 9941, 9943/44, 9947/48, 9953, 9955(contract...

Top rated investment grade US corporate bonds now trade at or even below pre-recession levels. Depending on the maturity and the type of issuer, new issue paper clears the market at spreads (to...

One of the consensus themes for 2014 was the expectation that interest rates would continue to climb against the backdrop of an improving global economy. As you can see from the 10 Barron’s...

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...

Treasuries are now outperforming every major asset class year-to-date: iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury (ARCA:TLT), Oil, Gold, Platinum, the S&P 500, emerging market bonds, the MSCI World...

Ten-Year Government of Canada Bond spent last week consolidating gains as we became overbought. Friday saw prices recover above 131.66 and top exactly at resistance of 131.86/88, as expected. This...

BOBL spent last week consolidating 2 months of gains as we became overbought, but the outlook remains quite positive with the bull trend intact. Immediate resistance at 126.56/57 then strong...

SCHATZ continued higher last week using the 100 week moving average as support. Prices hit our target of 110.63/64 and topped there. Above here, this week we run in to strong resistance from the...

The chart below is a year-to-date (as of 5/23/14) look at U.S. 10-Year Treasury prices in green and the Russell 2000 in blue. Clearly the better investment so far has been Treasuries.The 10-year is up...

If you are still asking “Why do Treasury yields keep falling?” then maybe you should have paid up for that Bernanke dinner last week… In a series of quarter-million-dollar dinners...

2014: Seeing Some Bubble-Like Comments The segments below from a recent CNN Money article have a familiar 2002-2006 housing bubble ring to them: The competition for the homes that are available is so...

Italian government bonds slid, pushing 10-year yields to the highest in more than six weeks, as investors prepared for European Parliament elections that risk a voter backlash against...

One of the biggest questions at the end of 2013 was how the Treasury market would react to the reduction of bond buying that would result from the Federal Reserve's tapering campaign. If the Fed were...

The U.S. 10-Year Treasury yield has fallen from 3% to start the year down to 2.5% yesterday.  The decrease was unexpected for most people, especially since inflation and growth expectations...