Treasury rates fell sharply as interest rate volatility dropped High-yield bonds rose big last month, but uncertainty lies ahead Traders monitoring important technical pattern on U.S....
Avoiding another 75-basis-point hike in September looks tough Policymakers say focus should be on inflation, not recession Central banks, including the Fed, made mistakes that have led to...
Fed policymakers leaning to 75 basis-point hike this month FOMC voter Bullard calling for 4.0% policy rate by end-2022 ECB faces dilemma as Russian gas cuts dampen economic outlook Federal...
The MOVE Index measures Treasury rate volatility through options pricing Daily bond market swings are the wildest since the Global Financial Crisis Yield volatility and credit spreads are...
Investors in US Treasuries face a dilemma as they are caught between an economy that seems very strong but faces challenges from soaring inflation and Federal Reserve rate hikes to cut it...
Irish Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe, who heads the so-called Eurogroup of EU finance ministers, felt obliged this week to reassure bond market investors that the eurozone does not face...
This article was written exclusively for Investing.comThe iShares U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF suffered its worst back-to-back daily drop since COVID Broad fixed income is down close to 30%,...
Yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury soared more than 20 basis points on Monday, rising to 3.37% as bond investors bet the Federal Reserve would have to get more aggressive about hiking...
Surging inflation and sinking bond markets have shifted to Europe this week, as initial CPI readings in the European Union point to accelerating price increases of more than 8% on the...
In normal times, stocks and bonds are negatively correlated—that is when stock prices tank, bond prices rise (and yields, which move inversely to prices, go down). The idea is that investors...
Up, down, up, down—US Treasury yields are bouncing around as investors try to balance worries about inflation with concern about a global economic slowdown, or even a recession.Good news,...
Bond investors are confused—and no wonder. Central bank officials keep telling them to ignore the evidence in front of their eyes.They are supposed to believe that inflation, which has been...
Surging yields on US Treasuries crossed the 3% threshold amid a price rout on the government bonds (yields rise as prices fall) in Monday trading ahead of this week’s meeting of the Federal...
U.S. Treasury investors are on a roller coaster as yields climbed on interest-rate fears and then plunged on growth worries.Remarks last week by Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell about...
Anyone who has their head screwed on straight is now likely really afraid of inflation. And soaring Treasury yields clearly reflect that fear.The US consumer price index for March rose 8.5%...
The yield curve inversion—when yield on the 2-year Treasury note exceeds that on the 10-year note—is normally considered a sign that recession is coming. But this time, analysts...
The yield curve on US Treasuries is flattening, and on Monday, yield on the 5-year was higher at one point, 2.64%, than on the 30-year bond at 2.57%.This inversion is not the most watched...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell proved to be a more forceful motivator for investors in US Treasuries than Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.Powell said on Monday that the Fed...
Investors felt optimistic enough on Monday about a resolution of the Ukraine conflict that they dumped US Treasuries as concerns about inflation and the Federal Reserve’s impending...
Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury note have seen significant swings over the past week as the fortunes of war do battle with inflation fears.The Russian invasion of Ukraine, with the...
As hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians flee the Eastern European country to escape Russia’s brutal military invasion, global investors are seeking safe havens of their own, piling into...
On Tuesday, following Russian President Vladimir Putin's accelerated saber rattling and latest moves on Ukraine, investors are increasing their flight to safe havens, obscuring any action or...
Investors in US Treasuries are being squeezed between the rock of Russia’s threat to Ukraine and the hard place of surging inflation.The consumer price index for January registered a 7.5%...
European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde roiled government bond markets big time when she said last week that eurozone policymakers can no longer exclude a rate hike this year. This...
The Federal Reserve’s plan to start raising interest rates in March—maybe by half a percentage point—is putting bond market analysts in a pickle.Yield on the 2-year Treasury note, considered...
