Bonds Analysis & Opinion

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, bad...

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 Open...

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 more...

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% on the...

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 for signs of...

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 could more...

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 increased...

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 US...

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 inaction...

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,...