Bonds Analysis & Opinion

U.S. Treasuries are relatively calm these days, but eurozone government bonds remain volatile. After the yield on the benchmark 10-year French bond climbed into positive territory, investors are...

So much liquidity has been pumped into the system that chunks of it are being offered back to the Federal Reserve, at zero percent. Perverse, as players are effectively shuffling excess reserves back...

Given yesterday’s headlines with Bitcoin plunging, did you take a peek at interest rates? Could a stronger dollar lie ahead with higher rates?While everybody’s eyes are peeled on...

One of the biggest concerns on Wall Street these days is the fact that bonds are no longer providing diversification for stocks.Bonds no longer provide a hedgeFor the past 40 years, one of the easiest...

Here we explain why some asset managers continue to favour US Treasuries, while liability managers do the opposite by funding in EUR (and JPY a.o.). Not just based on obvious rate differentials, but...

The central bank of the United States, the Federal Reserve, creates digital dollar credits to buy bonds. If you buy bonds to depress interest rates and to inject money into the financial system, you...

The world is awash in efforts to model a theoretical value for the stock market – the CAPE ratio, for example. But while the equities hog much of the attention on this front, similar analytics...

German media started to speculate last week that the negative-interest phase in government bonds might be reaching an end as optimism about vaccines and an economic rebound have prompted investors to...

"Hey neighbour, here's $100. Give me back $91 in 10 years and you're good! Just pay me the inflation rate..." That's the negative real rates market of today, not in the inverted eurozone rates space,...

U.S. Treasuries appear to be treading water. That's keeping yields on the 10-year benchmark at about 1.60% despite the usual fluctuations.Investors have priced in robust economic news, but a bullish...

Stay short and favor junk bonds. That, at least, is what’s worked rather well so far this year, based on set of ETFs representing the major slices of US fixed-income markets. But as reflation...

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury are in a holding pattern after receding from highs last month as investors await the first clue as to how fast the U.S. economy is growing when GDP for the...

If your historical perspective is defined the last several months, the recent jump in the benchmark 10-year Treasury rate looks significant. But a longer term view suggests otherwise. That will change...

The recent rise in Treasury yields is on hold for the moment. So is the normally shifting sands of trailing yields for the various components of the major asset classes, based on a set of exchange...