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- the generic name for negotiable debt instruments issued by the U.S. government.
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- Best Buys on Bonds
- Despite the nascent stock-market rally, the once-stodgy bond market remains the hot new thing for wary investors. Corporate and municipal bonds offer some temptingly high yields. Treasuries promise a safe haven. But the market is riddled with risks. Learn how to avoid them... Although stocks have bounced back in recent...
- Articles 2009-03-17
- The Dish on Diversification
- Yes, the strategy failed you in the crash, as virtually every asset class except Treasuries took a heart-stopping dive. But if you're hoping to climb out of the hole, it's still your best alternative. Why now may be the time to begin buying stocks, REITs and commodities again... It's...
- Articles 2009-03-27
- It Pays to Throw Good Money After Bad
- Do the math: investing steadily when stocks are swinging wildly will help you rebuild your tattered retirement savings faster than you might think. If you don't believe it, let us show you how it worked even in the worst bear market ever, the Great Depression. Rational brain, you...
- Articles 2009-04-01
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- The Treasuries Craze as Window Dressing
- Alex Filonov submits: I want to propose one more explanation of the current bubble in Treasuries. It was noted that the current prices of Treasuries can be explained by financial panic, the possibility of a Great Depression 2.0 or a combination of both. I also noted here that between...
- External links 2008-12-11
- What Does the Bubble in U.S. Treasuries Mean for the Economy?
- In recent months there has been a flight to US government debt, both notes and bonds as people and institutions seek financial safety. This flight has bid up the price of Treasuries beyond levels justified by market facts or experience. Treasuries are in a bubble. Bubbles do not endure. Painful...
- External links 2009-02-05
- A Way to Keep People Buying Treasuries
- FinancialSpiltMilk submits: There is a race to the bottom on currency values. The lower your currency goes in relation to other currencies, the better off you are exporting as your goods are cheaper. Yet, here is a reason why the U.S. may not be in a position to devalue...
- External links 2009-01-10
- What If the Chinese Sell Treasuries?
- Charles Lieberman submits: Investors remain nervous that foreign investors, particularly the Chinese, might stop buying Treasury debt and, even worse, could sell off some of their huge holdings. If this were to occur, U.S. interest rates could rise sharply, the dollar would likely sell off, credit flows might be disrupted,...
- External links 2009-06-16
- Are U.S Treasuries and Gold in Conflict?
- Gregor Macdonald submits: As a number of observers watch both Gold and Treasuries go higher in price, they’re concluding that one of these asset classes must be wrong. I can certainly understand that view. Over the past year, I have written several times that the 27 year bull market...
- External links 2009-10-09
- Shorting Treasuries: What's the Rationale?
- Market Folly submits: Essentially, U.S. Treasuries are setting up to be a great short opportunity. Last week, I laid out a basic thesis for shorting treasuries. We may be early in this call, but present and future actions are sending us signals we simply cannot ignore. The presently increasing and...
- External links 2008-11-13
- The Dollar vs. Treasuries Dichotomy
- Alex Filonov submits: Let's take a closer look at the behavior of the dollar and Treasuries lately. Here I mused that Treasuries are pointing to a financial panic, whereas the dollar isn't.On the graph below click to enlarge, the PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish Fund UUP, is a...
- External links 2008-12-05
- Treasuries Struggle Alongside Stocks
- Paco Ahlgren submits: Last week, 30-year Treasuries posted their biggest weekly loss since 1987. Normally, one might expect the capital leaving bonds to move into equities, and yet stocks fell. I'm not patting myself on the back, but if you've been reading my articles over the last three weeks,...
- External links 2009-01-25
- Treasuries Make a Comeback
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: So much attention was focused on the drop in Treasuries earlier this week, yet no one is even mentioning that they came all the way back to where they started the week. Below is an intraday price chart of the long bond...
- External links 2009-05-29
- Treasuries
- This tutorial provides information to the investor about Fixed Income. Also known as a Government Security, treasuries are a debt obligation of a local national government. Because they are backed by the credit and taxing power of a country they are regarded as having little or no risk of default....
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- Playing a Market Flooded with Treasuries
- Market Folly submits: Gregor Macdonald has a great post on his blog, called "Debt-ology," which details an issue I've been mulling over myself: the flooding of the market with supply of treasuries. I put this up as food for thought, as well as providing a possible way to play this impending...
- External links 2008-11-06
- SKorea pension fund to stop buying US Treasuries: manager
- SEOUL AFP — South Korea's pension fund will no longer buy low-yield US Treasuries because it wants to diversity its portfolio and boost returns, an official said Thursday. The world's fifth largest pension fund will consider buying European government debt or other higher-yielding assets, a manager at the National...
- Research articles 2008-03-26
- Treasuries Topping Out
- Daniel Shirley submits: In an unprecedented flight to safety on Thursday (December 11), investors bought from the treasury 16 billion worth of 10-year bonds at a yield around 2.67%. This is the lowest yield ever offered by the government at an auction. Yields on treasuries have been going down and...
- External links 2008-12-15
- Treasuries' True Risk
- Paco Ahlgren submits: “A ship is safe in harbor, but that's not what ships are for.” -- William Shedd The majority of analysts today believe Treasury prices will fall when the appetite for risk returns. That is certainly one way to...
- External links 2009-01-18
- Implications of the Fed's Purchase of Treasuries
- Simit Patel submits: A statement issued from the Federal Open Market Committee states it is ready to buy Treasuries. Here is the article from Bloomberg. Implications of Federal Reserve Buying Treasuries The first and most important implication is that the Federal Reserve is distorting the free market, as...
- External links 2009-01-30
- Why TIPS Are Still Better Than Nominal Treasuries
- RIA Analyst submits: RIAanalyst.com - Commentary: A lot of talk this week about spiking long treasuries and the inflation threat. So, we figured we’d run our tips-based inflation expectations model just to to see what things look like. So far things look mostly like a return to normalcy, with a...
- External links 2009-06-15
- Who Is Selling U.S. Treasuries?
- Andrew Horowitz submits: We know that over the past several weeks we have seen a significant rise on the interest rate on long treasuries. Of course that means that prices are moving lower, indicating that demand is waning. (Chart below shows the yield curve for treasuries as...
- External links 2009-06-22
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