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The jarring retreat in global bond markets this year has provoked comparisons to the mid-2013 Taper Tantrum, when the Fed hinted at the prospect of scaling back its QE program. While today's upheaval shares many similarities with that earlier event, there are also some notable differe...
One of the interesting things during the period when Treasury yields were rising was that all of the risk assets were compressing against Treasuries. There is virtually no spread in any of the credit indexes that pays the buyer for the credit risk. The spreads are just off historic lo...
For credit markets, the returns just kept coming in 2020 once the Fed stepped in with its strong policy support in late March. With strong returns in the fourth quarter, both investment grade and high yield corporate markets in the U.S. ended the year with positive returns over equiva...
Rising rates are such a problem for gold bullion that gold bullion and major gold stocks are where they were before the COVID pandemic crashed the U.S. stock market at this time last year. In other words, they have wiped out all the pandemic gains. The bid in the dollar is significant...
The recent rise in Treasury yields has spooked the equity markets. This is obvious from the recent performance of the bond markets as compared to the stock markets. Inflation is not the cause of this rise, but rather a combination of the stimulus measures, a rebounding economy, our CO...
Economic growth is returning to almost every country in the world, and almost all commodity prices are rising. The thing to worry about is the direction of fiscal policy, which will almost certainly bring us higher taxes, increased regulatory burdens, and more expensive energy. Fo...
It is my opinion, when considering both the inflation component and the credit risk component, that most bonds are not providing any real value currently. One strategy that should be considered is not buying any more bonds at present. The second is to take a careful look at your portf...
Risk assets have compressed in yield against Treasuries, so that any meaningful yield of anything has gotten wrung out of the markets. For the first time ever, yields in the High Yield markets are now less than 4.00%. In other words, you are getting paid about nothing for credit risk....
The world's negative-yielding debt instruments, great for governments and some corporations, are a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell" for a whole slew of investors. Bond yields are causing many of the institutional clients and individual clients difficulties. However, you can find funds w...
U.S. Fed keeps rates near zero. Colbourne: Fed unlikely to address the recent retail stock frenzy. Colbourne: Fed likely to to be very accommodating over a long period of time. For further details see: Fed Holds On Rates, But Warns Economic Growth Is Slowing
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