One rule that's held consistently in the recent market is that reaching for yield has cost investors in performance. I took a look at the FINRA data and the numbers were eye-opening. Here are the advance/decline numbers this past week for bonds in their investment grade index and bonds in their high-yield index (in parentheses):Tuesday, Nov. 18th: 1611/1232 (347/639)Monday, Nov. 17th: 1374/1422...
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Apologies for a late medical meeting, call night, Internet problems, and bad market rising.Another day, another beating for much of Wall Street.Can we distill this to a few charts?Thirty year bond yield. Deflation incarnate._________________________________________________________SP500...bombs away?_________________________________________________________Mamis-Meisler Breadth oscillator...10 pe...
Obama is promising to intervene in the economy in ways that Washington hasn't tried since the 1970s.
Prices of Treasury coupon securities posted gains today but the extent of the gains depended on the point on the yield curve at which the security resided. The yield on the 2 year note slipped 6 basis points to close at 1.07 percent. The yield on the 3 year note dropped 9 basis points to 1.34 percent. And then the bigger gains begin. The yield on the 5 year note tumbled 15 basis points to 2.05 ...
Safe-Haven Rally And Record CPI Decline Push Treasury Yields To Multidecade Lows
Wed, Nov 19, 7:38 PM ET
Evidence of evaporating inflation also boosted bond prices, pushing the price of the 30-year bond up 3 full points while its yield slid to 3.92%,...
The Japanese yen has traded very choppily lately, but remains below its October 24 highs where the low-yielding currency ran into critical resistance versus...
Filed under: Barrick Gold (ABX), Yamana Gold (AUY), Newmont Mining (NEM), ETF Investing, Goldcorp Inc (GG), Kinross Gold (KGC), BHP Billiton Ltd ADR (BHP), Anglo Amer ADR (AAUK)It seems that everywhere you turn you hear something about the price of gold, from analysts to commercials encouraging you to sell your old jewelry for big bucks. If you're tempted, how about a bit safer investment in th...
The news of the day was hardly positive, what with poor housing figures, more worries about the automakers, and concern in credit markets, but the late-day implosion probably sparked more than a few corner-office types storming onto the trading floor and shouting to nobody in particular, “What the hell just happened?” The collapse of major financial stocks — Citigroup finishe...
For many years, General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co. were the bellwethers of the high-yield market. As two of the largest issuers of debt, the bonds of the auto manufacturers were considered the industrial-company benchmarks for the status of junk financing. Even though they occupy a sizable section of high-yield financing, the bonds are no longer the most-watched. They are still influential...
Fedspeak! Paulson locks horns with lawmakers over rescue fund The risk of Bernanke's cash injections It isn’t a TARP without troubled assets to cover CPI + PPI = Deflation Year's defaults soar past a quarter-trillion S&P 500's Q3 earnings fall 22% from last year An interesting look at quarter EPS beat rates S&P 500 2009 estimates are all over the map Worst recession since 1930s is possible Depr...