Tag: interest rates

The treasury bonds market has experienced an uptick in volatility as investors try to figure out the dynamic between global interest rates, currencies, and economic growth....

The weakness in the bond market this year has been primarily centered on Treasury and investment grade corporate debt, which has the highest sensitivity...

There has been a lot of debate around interest rates lately. Will they keep rising? Will they turn back lower? But amidst all the...

I devoted last week’s market commentary to explaining the incredible volatility that has been occurring in bond yields. I explained that volatility associated with trading...

Last week was a difficult week for those of us that own bonds. In particular, ETFs like the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund...

The S&P 500 has once again powered to all-time highs. Yesterday it reached an intraday high of 2125 before pulling back. There is an FOMC...

The Big Macro Event that had been hanging over the stock and bond markets the last month was finally resolved last week when the...

Monetary Existentialism People who study the theory of money have always struggled with the epistemology. Economist Arnold Kling quotes this from historian Yuval Harari's Sapiens:...

Over the past several weeks I have spent a lot of time highlighting the global economic slowdown and how it will continue to drag on the...

The iShares TIPS Bond ETF (TIP) is at an important inflection point as the next Fed meeting approaches. The TIPS Bond ETF serves as...