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Many investors who traditionally invested in municipal bonds are instead buying Treasuries as the yield spread between the two investments moves closer together.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the author of Black Swan said today at a confernece that "every single human" should bet that US Treasuries will decline. He believes it's a no-brainer based on the policies...
Article | Feb 4, 2010 | Views: 200 | Comments: 0
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Former Bank of England policymaker William Buiter says that investors should shun Treasuries because it is almost certain the US will have to raise rates next year.
The US savings rate hit a 14-year high of 5% last month, up from .1% a year ago as Americans moved out of the stock market and socked money away.
Article | Mar 2, 2009 | Views: 433 | Comments: 0
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Inflation-protected bonds offer almost all of the advantages -- and almost none of the disadvantages -- of regular Treasury securities. Look for their prices to pop, perhaps soon.
South Korea's largest investor, the South Korea National Pension Service said it's time to sell US treasuries as it believes the stimulus plan being developed by Obama and the Congress will lead to...
After a short three weeks and in an increasingly dire economy, municipal bonds have already proven to be the trade of 2009.
Article | Jan 18, 2009 | Views: 306 | Comments: 0
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Bernanke dropped interest rates virtually to zero, surprising almost everyone, as part of a very smart – albeit risky – plan to spark institutional and individual investors to get out of...
Article | Dec 19, 2008 | Views: 167 | Comments: 2
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In an auction on Tuesday, the Treasury sold $30 billion of short-term securities at a 0% interest rate. Investors were willing to accept 0 return to stash their cash. What does that say?
Standard & Poor's strategist Sam Stovall, who just a month ago predicted that the market would drop another 10% from its March 17 trough (by which time it had fallen 19% from it October peak), now...
Dec. 28 (Bloomberg) -- Treasuries rose the most in more than two weeks and headed for the best annual returns since 2002 after a government report showed sales of new homes in the U.S. declined to...
Article | Dec 28, 2007 | Views: 358 | Comments: 0
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Two year treasuries rose to their highest level since 2005 as investors move their money to safety. While short term rates dropped, long term did not move nearly as much. Investors seem to think...
The spike in Treasury yields may have done the job for the Fed, eliminating the need for further increases in short term rates.
The interesting thing, is that it looks like long-term rates no...