A popular bond fund is hitting a key price level that may finally produce a long-awaited bounce. We talk often of the inexorable Trump Rally…
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Rising Rates (Really) Reaching Resistance?
The spike in the 10-Year Yield has brought it into a cluster of significant potential resistance stemming back nearly a decade. Today’s Chart Of The…
Bullish Bond Boat Back In Balance
The massive “smart money” bond short has been completely unwound. In late June, we wrote a post suggesting why perhaps the long-term, and long-doubted, bull…
Rising Rates Reaching Resistance?
The 4-month rally in bond yields may soon hit a snag in the form of potential chart resistance. Today, we unleashed a veritable barrage of…
Balanced Investors Stuck Between A Rock & A Hard Place
For just the 2nd time in 10 years, both stocks AND bonds are hitting 3-month lows. This week, stocks began to exhibit some of the…
“Rising” Rates Hit New Lows
Despite ubiquitous calls and expectations for rising interest rates, yields on the long bond closed the week at a 52-week low. It was probably over…
It’s Groundhog Day Again For The Rising Rates Crowd
Yet another attempt at rising interest rates has spectacularly fizzled out. Well, once again the critter popped its head above the surface before promptly returning…
Is Flattening Yield Curve Signaling Recession?
The yield curve just dropped to 8-year lows; but it isn’t necessarily flagging a recession, yet. With the carnage in the equity and commodity markets,…
10-Year Yield Running Into Key Resistance
Last Friday, we posted a piece on the “breakout” in the 2-Year Treasury Yield. In light of the much stronger than expected jobs numbers, rates…
Another Rising Rates Set-Up?
2-Year Treasury Yields rose to a 5 ½-year high today…but we’ve seen these “break-outs” many times the past few years. In light of the much stronger…