Most retail investors understand stocks fairly well. They get how a stock price trades based on valuation (price-to-earnings ratios) and other basic factors that can be found on Yahoo Finance. But most investors only know cursory knowledge about bonds. The basic premise that investors tend to know is that as interest rates rise, bond values fall.
(Source: BabyPips)
The recent fall in interest rates has pushed up the value of nearly all bonds. The Barclay's U.S. Aggregate Bond Index (AGG) is now up 9.11% year-to-date, about half that of the S&P 500. Prior