Treasury Bonds 5 Years of Interest Destroyed in 6 Weeks!
Interest-Rates / US Bonds Jan 26, 2009 - 03:50 PM GMT
Martin Weiss writes: Last month, investors from all over the world — spooked by the debt crisis — flocked to buy long-term U.S. Treasury bonds.
They bought U.S. bonds with money earned from China's export boom. They scooped up bonds with money gleaned from the savings of millions of Japanese families … with government money … oil money … even drug money.
Investors large and small, haughty and humble — Asian central bankers, mid-East sheiks, and retired Americans living on fixed income — all piled into Treasury bonds at the same time.
And they all had a similar goal: To escape the terrifying dangers … find what they thought was a safe haven … and grasp for something — anything — better than the near-zero yields on short-term Treasury bills.
M any reached out as far as they possibly could in maturity, buying the longest Treasury bond in existence — the 4.5% “long bond” expiring May 15, 2038.
But as the Treasury bond buying frenzy reached a crescendo on December 18 of last year, they didn't get the coupon yield of 4.5%.
Instead, they had to pay such a high price for the bond, they wound up locked into the lowest Treasury-bond yield in history : A meager 2.52%!
That was bad enough.
But the saga of woes does not end there. The real disaster came with the events that have ensued since …
For each $10,000 in face value bonds, they paid an exorbitant $14,091. And now, the value of that bond has plunged to only $12,200, delivering a shocking loss of $1,890.
The summary of these results reads like a fixed-income horror story:
| Annual yield: | A meager 2.52% |
| Market loss: | 12.85% |
| Years of interest lost: |
12.85/2.52 = 5.3 |
| Time elapsed: | 6 weeks |
Conclusion: They lost the equivalent of more than FIVE YEARS OF INTEREST in just SIX weeks.
It was easily among the most disastrous Treasury bond investments of all time! Meanwhile, investors who followed our recommendation to buy strictly short-term Treasury bills didn't lose a penny.
Now do you understand why we've been warning you not to touch long-term bonds with a ten-foot pole? And now do you see why we've been working so hard to find other, alternative, depression-proof sources of income and profits for you?
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Martin
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