Bonds Analysis & Opinion

It appears there’s no shortage of investor love for municipal bond funds. September 28 was the 52nd straight week of inflows into state and local government debt, marking the second longest...

Heading into Friday's jobs report amid a barrage of increasingly hawkish comments from Fed heads about a forthcoming rate hike before year end, let's notice that the U.S. 10-year yield is pushing up...

Below looks at the government bond ETF TLT over the past 10 years. For the first seven months of this year, TLT rallied strongly. That rally took it to the top of its 10-year rising channel at (1),...

I’ve taken plenty of bond math classes. The best of them was in the summer of 2001 at Lehman Brothers. Lehman Brothers wasn’t going to teach a bad bond math class, not at the firm that...

Bond prices generally move with stock prices over the long term. Or at least that is what any of us have seen over the last 30 years. But it could be just a coincidence that a 30 year bull market in...

The 10-Year Treasury Note’s term premium (an estimate of the extra compensation that the market demands for holding longer rather than shorter maturities) has been moderately negative for most...

You can find any answer you want by comparing the current curve to various points in its history. Over the past 30 trading days, for instance, the curve is more or less unchanged. But comparisons over...

Though I highly doubt he will admit it, he’s just not the type, even Ben Bernanke knows on some level that bond market is decidedly against him, or at least his legacy. Economists have a funny...

On Friday, the Wall Street Journal officially ran an obituary for the TED spread proclaiming: “The Ted Spread Is Dead, Baby. The Ted Spread Is Dead.” The article explains: This spread...

Marty Fridson, of Standard & Poor’s Global Market Intelligence, reported yesterday that on September 8 the difference between the yield on junk bonds and the company’s estimation of...

Boston Fed President Eric Rosengren recently rattled markets when he warned that low-interest rates were increasing the temperature of the U.S. economy, which now runs the risk of overheating. That...

Junk bonds are often viewed as leading indicators for the stock market. Rising junk prices are usually greeted by stocks in a positive way and weak junk prices are often viewed in a concerning...

The yield on the 10-Year US Treasury closed at around 1.68% yesterday, but judging by the haughty commentary surrounding global bond markets you would be forgiven if you thought it was 2.68%. Since...

Leave it to the government to screw things up. As the Zero Economy trudges forward, more and more distortions are rippling through the world of money.You can thank the world’s money maestros....