TUZ News and Press, PIMCO 1-3 Year U.S. Treasury Index Exchange-Traded Fund From 11/22/19

When you have entered this space, you may be assured that you have gone into some kind of distorted world, possibly created by Aldous Huxley. It may be a "Brave New World," but it may also be a level of Dante's "Inferno." Whatever it eventually turns out to be, it is certainly a historical pro...

In last week's testimony before the Joint Economic Committee of Congress, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell applauded the U.S. economy's continued strength. He also suggested that, after easing monetary policy three times this year, the Fed will hold interest rates at their present leve...

I don't think that was quite the message the FOMC wanted to send. It's pretty clear what the Committee wanted to say, or wanted everyone to hear. The members are done with rate cuts because everything looks great. Sure, it all looked great to them last year, but as has become the conventional...

Rick Rieder and Russ Brownback argue that - in contrast to the past decade of monetary policy lifting all economic boats at once - the years ahead are likely to be characterized by great dispersion between economies, industries and markets. Understanding that dynamic will be the name of the g...

By Kevin Flanagan The volatility in Treasury ((UST)) yields since Labor Day is a real-time example of what investors have been faced with recently regarding the direction of interest rates. While 2019 thus far has been, generally, a year of falling rates as compared to the 2018 experience,...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on November 18, 2019. In a blog post in early September , I noted that the 10-year TIPS (Treasury Inflation Protected Security) yield had just gone negative and that the previous two times that this proxy for the real interest rate wen...

"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time." - Wonderland So you will just have to put up with it. You are going to have a dreadful time. I am going to explain something to you, and you will just have to suffer. Of course, you can always exit out of this article ...

Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933. - Ben Bernanke Not 21st-century Fed, though. The most proactive central bank recently...

Listen and subscribe to the Marketplace Roundtable on these podcast platforms: iTunes/Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Libsyn By Nathaniel E. Baker Eric Basmajian rejoins the Marketplace Roundtable Podcast to discuss his investing experience as ref...

Originally published November 12, 2019 By Erin Bigley With interest rates having fallen to such low levels over the course of the year and government bond returns having been very solid year to date, it's left many investors questioning, should they continue to have duration withi...