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Analysis Topic: Interest Rates and the Bond Market

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

U.S. Treasury Bonds, The Correct Play Is To Be Long / Interest-Rates / US Bonds

By: Guy_Lerner

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleOver the past many months, I have spent much time on this blog writing about US Treasury bonds. Treasury bonds have become a tale of two diverse stories, and both stories have the potential to be secular or generational in nature.

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Interest-Rates

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

How the Fed Lost Control of Monetary Policy / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Dr_Jeff_Lewis

While investors contemplate the recent increase in the Federal Funds rate, astute investors realize this arbitrary figure means nothing in regards to fighting inflation or decreasing the money supply.  Although the Federal Funds rate may have made an impact in 2008, its impact on the market was lost after the Fed expanded the balance sheet to buy illiquid assets in late 2008 through 2009.

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Interest-Rates

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

The Most Important Chart in the World Right Now / Interest-Rates / US Bonds

By: DailyWealth

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleTo most people, any talk of the U.S. government debt simply doesn't mean anything.

For instance, I could tell you the annual funding costs of our national debt are approaching $4 trillion per year – that's $1.5 trillion in new annual deficits, plus $2 trillion-$3 trillion a year in short-term obligations coming due that need to be refinanced. Foreigners hold roughly half of this debt. Thus, we have about $2 trillion in foreign debt that must be repaid or refinanced each year.

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Interest-Rates

Monday, February 22, 2010

U.S. Government Debt Crisis is Financial Armageddon / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Martin_D_Weiss

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleIf you thought Wall Street’s debt crisis was traumatic, wait till you the see the consequences of Washington’s debt crisis!

Never before in history has a world power like the U.S. been so utterly buried in debt! And never before has that debt been financed so massively by foreign investors!

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Interest-Rates

Monday, February 22, 2010

U.S. Federal Reserve Raises Discount Rate, What is the Economic Significance? / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Barry_Grey

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleIn a move that took the financial markets by surprise, the US Federal Reserve Board on Thursday announced that, effective Friday, it was raising its discount rate by a quarter point, from 0.50 percent to 0.75 percent.

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Interest-Rates

Monday, February 22, 2010

Interest Rate Yield Curve Steepest In History, Is it Different This Time? / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Mike_Shedlock

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleCurve Watchers Anonymous is once again taking a look at the yield curve looking for economic clues. Here are a few charts to consider.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, February 19, 2010

U.S. Treasury Debt Auctions Bombing, China Heading for the Hills … Higher Interest Rates Dead Ahead! / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Mike_Larson

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleYou can’t count on Washington to proactively warn you about major economic and market problems …

blackhalfarrow Debt Auctions Bombing ... China Heading for the Hills ... Higher Rates Dead Ahead! Politicians and Fed policymakers failed to warn investors away from tech stocks during the Nasdaq bubble.

blackhalfarrow Debt Auctions Bombing ... China Heading for the Hills ... Higher Rates Dead Ahead! They failed to warn you in advance that the housing and mortgage markets would crash.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, February 19, 2010

Fed Raises Discount Interest Rate, Dollar Soars, Equity Futures Sink, What's It Really Mean? / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Mike_Shedlock

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe Fed has been talking about its "exit strategy" for quite some time. Few believed he would pull the trigger on anything soon. Yet, Bernanke, unexpectedly raised the discount rate headed into options expiration.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, February 19, 2010

Is all this Fed Central Bank Exit Strategy Talk Warranted? / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Tim_Iacono

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleBoy, for a group of policymakers at the nation's central bank who, in a best case scenario, are going to just sit on their hands for at least the rest of the year, there sure has been a lot of talk about an "exit strategy".

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Are US Treasury Bonds About to Rally or Implode? Part2 / Interest-Rates / US Bonds

By: Graham_Summers

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleBack in October I wrote a piece, Are US Treasuries About to Rally or Implode?  At that time, I noted that the chart for long-term US debt was forming what could have either been a challenge to long-term support, or a potential head and shoulders pattern.

The main idea was that the market was about to tell us whether or not investors considered US Treasuries a safe-haven anymore. If they did, long-term debt would rally. If they didn’t the potential head and shoulders pattern would be confirmed by a break below the “neckline” which would trigger a major sell-off.

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The Municipal Bond Crisis Is About to Begin / Interest-Rates / Credit Crisis 2010

By: Graham_Summers

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThus ends one more safehaven.

For decades municipal bonds have been considered one of the safest income plays on the planet. If you’re unfamiliar with these investments, municipal bonds or muni bonds as they’re commonly called, are bonds issued by lower tier governments (state, city, or even county) to raise capital for public projects like building a highway, sewer, or what have you.

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

U.S. Treasury Bonds TLT and IEF Update / Interest-Rates / US Bonds

By: Guy_Lerner

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleOne month ago, I looked at US Treasury bonds, and I was a bit more constructive than I had been in the prior 12 months. Technically, it had appeared that TLT and IEF had made reversals. So what has happened?

Absolutely nothing! Bonds have yet to get off their back and move higher. On the other hand, they have not moved lower. Do I get any points for that?

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Interest-Rates

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

The End of Low Interest Rates Is Near / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Francois_Soto

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleLong Term Interest Rates To Double By 2020
We believe 10-Year U.S. Treasuries Government Yield is going to double over the next decade to eventually reach 10% by 2020. This prediction seems quite nonsensical as interest rates are hovering at their lowest level but secular financial environment changes occur most of the time when market participants are expecting it the least... And this might just be the case with long term interest rates!

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Interest-Rates

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Fed Chooses to Exit through Eye of Needle / Interest-Rates / US Interest Rates

By: Michael_Pento

Ben Bernanke is making sure the Fed’s exit strategy goes as easily as a camel can pass through the eye of a needle. Instead of choosing to just sell assets and unwind the amount of securities it holds, the Fed chairman is seeking to be creative once again—as he was in the buildup of its balance sheet--and increase the amount of interest it pays on excess reserves. He said this in a prepared statement for the House Financial Services Committee that was released on Wednesday, “It is possible that the Federal Reserve could for a time use the interest rate paid on reserves, in combination with targets for reserve quantities, as a guide to its policy stance, while simultaneously monitoring a range of market rates.”

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Interest-Rates

Monday, February 15, 2010

Credit Card Interest Rates Hit 12 Year High Despite 0.5% Base Rate / Interest-Rates / Credit Cards & Scoring

By: MoneyFacts

Increased competition in the credit card market at the end of the 1990s meant rates started to fall, dropping to their lowest level in 2006.

Since 2006 as the economic downturn took hold, credit card rates have steadily increased, with the average rate today hitting a 12 year high of 18.8%.

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Interest-Rates

Sunday, February 14, 2010

Niall Ferguson: A Greek Debt Crisis is Coming to America / Interest-Rates / US Debt

By: Trader_Mark

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleOh that Niall!  Always stirring up trouble... Today might be the most entertaining set of posts I've ever put together - what a smorgasbord. Today we have an editorial in the Financial Times raising many of the same issues we speak out weekly in these virtual pages.  Don't forget your own homeland Mr. Ferguson; it's a mini US but without the reserve currency - this "grand experiment" of fighting debt with more debt should show up on your shores before ours.  The only thing that separates our 2 nations from the Greeks on a fiscal basis, is the printing press.  [Feb 5, 2010: Sovereign Risk Chart - Where Would the US Fit in, on Europe's Scale?]

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Interest-Rates

Sunday, February 14, 2010

U.S. Treasury Bond Debt Auctions on a Trend to Failure? / Interest-Rates / US Bonds

By: Fresbee

Diamond Rated - Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleThe latest 30 year bond auction have been disappointing with some already terming it as a failure. This is an opportune time to analyse the trends in bond markets. There is almost a pall of gloom across the many who understand bond market mechanics and we will try to break down two of the most important auctions: 30 year and 10 year auctions, to see the trend and patterns in results. Quoting from Reuters on the latest 30 Year auction:

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Interest-Rates

Friday, February 12, 2010

Forget Greece, the US Almost Had a Failed Treasury Bond Auction / Interest-Rates / US Bonds

By: Graham_Summers

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleWhile most of the investment world focuses on the various ”senior officials” (none of whom seem to have actual names or positions) commenting on whether Greece will or will not be bailed out/ receive an emergency loan/ offered moral support, etc, a far more significant debt story is emerging in the US.

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Interest-Rates

Friday, February 12, 2010

U.S. Real Estate Market and Interest Rates in 2010 and Beyond / Interest-Rates / US Housing

By: Mike_Larson

Best Financial Markets Analysis ArticleLast week’s World MoneyShow in Orlando was a huge success! I had the pleasure of meeting several of you at the Gaylord Palms Hotel, and I couldn’t have been happier with the constructive feedback you shared.

But I also know that not everyone could make the trek. And I don’t want to leave you out in the cold!

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Interest-Rates

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Not All UK Fixed Rate Mortgages Are Decreasing / Interest-Rates / Mortgages

By: MoneyFacts

Latest Moneyfacts.co.uk figures show that while fixed mortgage rates are falling, they are only doing so for those with significant equity.

The average two year fixed rate for a borrower with a 10% deposit has increased steadily since April 2009, now standing at 6.48%, the highest level since December 2008.

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