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Long-Duration Treasury Bonds Enter Bull Market: What Lies Ahead In 2024?
Wednesday, December 20, 2023 - 1:11pm | 673Long-duration Treasury bonds, a cornerstone of many investment portfolios, have recently recovered from a bear market that commenced in August 2020. This downturn led to a significant reduction in value, with a maximum drawdown exceeding 50% at their lowest point. The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond...
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US 10-Year, 30-Year Yields Hit Decade Highs, Shaking 5 Treasury ETFs
Monday, September 25, 2023 - 1:14pm | 694The Federal Reserve’s commitment to maintaining higher interest rates for longer has unleashed seismic tremors within the bond market, culminating in an explosive surge in yields across all maturity periods. Initially, the reverberations were absorbed by 2-year yields, a segment that had...
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Yellen Rebukes Fitch's 'Unwarranted' Downgrade Of US Credit Rating: Treasuries Hit 9-Month Low
Wednesday, August 2, 2023 - 3:00pm | 496U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is publicly criticizing Fitch’s decision to downgrade the United States’ credit rating, a move that led to a significant drop in stock prices on Wednesday. The downgrade was deemed “entirely unwarranted” by Yellen. Yellen, during a...
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US Treasury's Trillion-Dollar Problem: Could Rising Yields, Bond Flood Signal Stock Market Storm?
Monday, July 31, 2023 - 1:49pm | 956The U.S. Treasury’s interest expenditures are approaching a whopping $1 trillion, equating to a hefty 4% of the nation’s economy and even surpassing Tesla‘s entire market valuation. These findings are based on the most recent Bureau of Economic Analysis data, which shed light on...
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EUR/USD Depressed By Downtrend Resistance As Doom And Gloom Dominate
Thursday, March 28, 2019 - 9:40am | 565EUR/USD is trading around 1.1250, consolidating around the lowest levels in two weeks amid a worsening mood. German inflation and US GDP data stand out, as markets watch bond markets. The technical picture is bearish for the pair. EUR/USD is going nowhere fast, with the most recent rise above 1....
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Marc Faber: Financial System Steering Toward Foreboding Iceberg, What Belongs In Your Lifeboat
Thursday, June 4, 2015 - 2:38pm | 387Famous investor and publisher of the "Gloom, Boom & Doom Report," Marc Faber was on CNBC recently to discuss whether central banks across the world will stop their quantitative easing and what would be the consequences if they don’t. Asset Buying Will Continue "Not only the U.S....