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The relentless bids in the U.S. Treasury market continue, with the 10-year Treasury yield closing last week at 2.41%. Given the fierce rebound in the high-yield market – with key high yield ETFs trading at fresh 52-week highs – I would have expected “risk free” inve...

As I stated in December 2019, keep your eyes on the bond markets in 2019. And, I believe, watching the bond markets has given us the most interesting insights into the economic situation and the attitude of investors available. The latest bounce in the bond markets came in the last half of M...

Last week, the yield curve inverted for the first time since 2007. The yield for 10-year Treasuries fell below the yield for the 3-month T-Bill. The inversion set off alarm bells and US stocks fell sharply. While concerns are reasoned, the alarm bells may be premature. Inversion is an hist...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on March 26, 2019. [This blog post is an excerpt from a recent TSI commentary.] The Quantity Theory of Money (QTM) holds that the change in money Purchasing Power ((PP)) is proportional to the change in the Money Supply ((MS)). It's...

Since the zero lower bound distorts the yield curve at very low rates, an inverted yield curve at low rates is worse than an inverted yield curve at higher rates. This is a reason why the curve didn't invert in the 1950s. The necessary adjustments here could be made either by just looking ...

By Schwab Center for Financial Research A snapshot of yields on a series of bonds. A normal yield curve slopes upward from shorter maturities to longer ones. Investors usually require extra return to tie up their money for longer periods. Changing yield curve. The slope can chang...

Kathy Jones: Most investors understand the importance of having an allocation to fixed income in their portfolios for generating income, capital preservation, and diversification, but when it comes to diversification from stocks, not all bonds are created equal. I'm Kathy Jones, and t...

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell's decision in December to raise the federal funds target by 25 basis points, to 2.25-2.50 percent, and to continue raising rates at least twice in the new year, upset financial markets. The Dow and S&P each dropped at least 8.7 percent , logging their worst Dece...

There are many harsh lessons to be learned from the gambling experience, but the harshest one of all is the difference between having Fun and being Smart." - Hunter S. Thompson Looking at the return of the "D" trade, "D" for "Deflation" that is with the return of the strong "bid" for bonds...

The Fed sets interests rates. But how does the Fed set interest rates? The Fed is undergoing a big review of this question. We had a little workshop at Hoover in preparation for the larger May 3 Strategies for Monetary Policy conference , which provokes the following thoughts. Issue ...