Bonds Analysis & Opinion

If you ever needed addiitonal proof that bond investors put top priority on yield, the recent strong interest in Chinese government bonds provides it.It’s not that investors ignore political...

Austria has a storied history in the middle of Europe, but that’s not why investors oversubscribed its 100-year bond last week by nearly nine times, offering €17.7 billion ($19.91 billion)...

Central banks looking for ways to keep credit flowing as interest rates remain low are scrutinizing the yield curve control pioneered in recent years by the Bank of Japan.The Japanese central bank...

Greece’s new issue of 10-year government bonds last week was more than five times oversubscribed, enabling the erstwhile sick man of Europe to raise €3 billion (US$ 3.4B) at a yield of 1.55...

Public health officials may have their worries about the risks still posed by the coronavirus pandemic, but bond investors are coming out of their lockdown in safe haven bonds—and they're ready...

This post was written exclusively for Investing.comYields are likely to remain low for the foreseeable future as the velocity of MZM Money Stock falls to its lowest level in modern times. The...

Yields on the 10-year Treasury fell back beneath the key 2% level today as investors sought shelter on growing concerns over a pending recession. Why, then, did the S&P 500 Index just hit...

Treasury yields are falling. They've dropped below 2.3 overnight, to the lowest since 2017, as investor demand for safety surges.The current yield is the lowest since mid-October 2017, suggesting...

Investors remained on edge Monday but the whiff of panic that spurred Friday’s equity plunge was gone. Stocks closed mixed even as the inversion on the yield curve between 3-month and 10-year...

A recent article by Paul Chin advocated a role for government bonds in a diversified portfolio at all times.I’m more in the ‘against’ camp than the ‘for’ camp. I disagree...

10-Year Treasury yields rose for the first time in more than a week today, up two basis points to 2.65 percent. The boost came as investors sold off Treasurys after Fed Chair Jerome Powell said in an...

News headlines trumpet that the post-Christmas equity rally is stalling. It is. But how much of it is self-perpetuated?Similarly, how would retail investors react when all the financial media warn...

Originally published by CuffelinksAt this time of year, many investors look back on the returns achieved in various asset classes in the previous year and reconsider their asset allocations. In 2018,...

Originally published by BetaSharesThe current equity market slump, including ‘Shocktober”, has once again shown the value that bonds can play in investors’ portfolios in terms of...