Tag: bond market
May 2017 Credit Markets Recap: Big Month For Corporate Bonds
May 2017 was a sufficiently stunning month in the credit markets.
And it deserves an update on the litany of data the I laid out...
Are Junk Bonds (JNK) Sending A Bullish Message To Stocks?
There are several popular indicators that investors use to gauge the health of the stock market.
One that I like to follow is the SPDR Junk...
Treasury Bonds: Will This Triple Bottom Prove Bullish?
Treasury bonds have underperformed other major asset classes since topping last summer. Â But the 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT) may be finding some...
April Credit Markets Recap: The Bull Market Marches On…
April proved to be yet another month of frustration for bears and those, like me, who are simply looking (and hoping) for a stock...
Treasury Bonds ETF (TLT) At Record Drawdown Levels
To say the bond market is suffering right now would be an understatement. We are seeing just about record everything. And depending on your...
Treasury Bonds (NASDAQ:TLT) Likely To See Bounce Here
A while back, I recommended a short position (or avoid) on the 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NASDAQ:TLT). Â To play this, I took a...
Q3 Financial Markets Review: Stocks Come Full Circle
It is hard to remember a year that started with as much doom and gloom as 2016.
U.S. stock market indices limped into the year after much...
U.S. Economic Update: ‘Americans, We Have A Problem…’
I was six years old when the Apollo 13 mission had a major malfunction that resulted in aborting their mission to land on the...
Stocks Bonds Performance Ratio Testing Resistance
We are close to finishing out the historically bearish period of seasonality for equities. And while we didn’t see any kind of crash that...
Taking Stock Of Your Bond ETFs: Is Your Portfolio Too Vanilla?
Is Your Bond Portfolio Too Plain Vanilla?
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) make for an easy way to access a diverse portfolio of bonds with very minimal...
