Bonds Analysis & Opinion

The Federal Reserve just hiked interest rates for the tenth time in a row, extending its 14-month crackdown on stubborn inflation and bumping the federal funds rate to a target range of 5 to 5.25%....

As the Federal Reserve continues to fight inflation by raising interest rates, the market is growing uncertain about future rate hikes.Today, we share a chart comparing the 10 Year Treasury...

Trailing yields have recently increased for most of the major asset classes, based on a set of ETF proxies. The question is whether the relatively high payout rates offset concerns about the...

U.S. Treasury yields declined for the last week of April as traders digested key economic data that may have an impact on the Fed’s policy decision in early May. Wages and salaries for...

Markets are understandably skittish about the health of the financial sector, which allows bonds to act as a safe haven. We would be wary of acting on large market moves ahead of a week heavy in event...

The 10-year Treasury yield was up 5 basis points to 3.57%, hitting four-week highs on growing expectations that the Federal Reserve could keep interest rates higher for longer. The 2-year Treasury...

The 10-year Treasury rate continues to trade well above CapitalSpectator.com’s fair-value estimate, but the days of a large premium look numbered. As evidence mounts that inflation continues to...

Last month we looked at how stock market volatility ebbs and flowsHow Monitoring Volatility Regimes Helps Anticipate Key Market Pivots through time. Let’s pick up this thread and do the same for...

Two hundred and sixty Fed meetings will occur between the issuing and maturing of a United States 30-Year Treasury bond. There will be 260 times when the Fed raises, lowers, or does nothing with Fed...

Treasury yields rebounded after the deal for deposits and assets of Silicon Valley Bank. The yield on the benchmark 10-Year U.S. Treasury Note rose 9 basis points from 3.38% to 3.47% as fears of a...

The Federal Reserve lifted rates by 0.25% amid banking turmoil and signalled at least one more hike this year. Fed Chair Jerome Powell also said rate cuts were currently not in the central bank's...

Turmoil in the bank industry and renewed concerns of economic headwinds are driving expectations that Federal Reserve's interest-rate hiking is at or near an end. In turn, the outlook has sparked a...

Treasury yields plunged again as investors flocked to safe-haven assets after the banking chaos. They are scaling back the likelihood of another rate hike this month from the Federal Reserve. The...

Bank contagion has officially spread to international markets, raising fears that last week’s dramatic failures of U.S. lenders Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank may be just the start...