Long-term U.S. Treasury bonds have fallen 7% in value since November 1 and municipal bonds have fallen 6%. “Safe” investments like Treasury’s and Munis are not supposed to crash they are the mainstay of widows and orphans. So What’s happening? For most of the last century, the whole world has believed the obligations of the U.S. […]
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By Susan C. Walker When money market funds, mutual funds and CDs yield next to nothing, the old itch to find higher yields kicks in. That may be why Bloomberg has had a field day reporting on the latest attempts to find higher yields. For example, from an October 7 story: Private-equity firms are
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After the investment winter of 2008, in 2009 as stocks began showing some “green shoots” and looked a bit like spring, 2010 has looked a bit like Summer or Autumn with prices flattening out and going nowhere. Does that mean that investment Winter is just around the corner again? Here is Robert Prechter’s take on the
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Treasury bonds may have appeal in the short-to-intermediate-term as markets wrestle with deflationary forces. However, do bond holders really believe the political will exists today, or will suddenly surface in the future, to address the “unsustainable” state of U.S. financial affairs?
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Historically whenever the 10-year Treasury yield drops 1.2% over a short period of time a bear market for stocks resulted within two months . This signal presaged steep market crashes in 1990, 2000, and 2007.
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Recently I received this question about I-bonds. I-bonds are inflation adjusted Treasury bonds. The amount they pay is adjusted twice a year to compensate for the effects of inflation. I am a holder of Treasury I bonds (adjusts to the CPI every May & Nov.) Last November the CPI that Treasury used was 2.8,
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