The recent rise in bond yields is threatening to lift the market out of the “extraordinarily low-rate” regime. Among the reactions in the financial markets immediately…
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Will Bond Bulls Finally Get Their Bounce?
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…
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…
Here Comes The Rising Rate Ruckus Again
Short-term rates are testing their near-term and looong-term downtrends. “Test Week” concludes with a look at the interest rates. In late July, we noted the…
A Real Opportunity For The Rising Rates Crowd?
2-Year Treasury Yields are testing the point of their post-Brexit breakdown; re-taking that level may actually give rates some upward momentum. Quick quiz: where did…
“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…
Is This Chart Pattern Doubly Bullish For Muni Bonds?
A typically bullish chart formation may be present on multiple time frames on a popular municipal bond ETF. As we are primarily equity managers, today’s…