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US Faces 'Financial Heart Attack,' Ray Dalio Warns — Shares Investment Strategies: 'The Safest Investment That You Can Get Right Now Is An Inflation-Indexed Bond'
Sunday, June 29, 2025 - 2:40pm | 533Billionaire investor Ray Dalio has voiced his apprehension regarding the mounting U.S. debt, comparing it to an imminent “financial heart attack.” What Happened: Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, cautioned about the unmanageable deficits at a recent New York event. He...
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Treasury Yields Hit 3-Year Record Surge Amid Trump Tariff Fears: What Investors Should Know
Monday, April 14, 2025 - 2:37am | 541U.S. 10-Year Treasury yields touched 4.5% on Friday, up 55 basis points over the week, marking their biggest weekly gain in three years, owing to substantial tariff-related uncertainties. What Happened: The U.S. 10-year Treasuries had a volatile day on Friday, with yields reaching as high as 4.50...
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Donald Trump Reportedly Hid Billionaire's Bond Offer From Court To Save Millions
Saturday, April 6, 2024 - 4:14pm | 476Former President Donald Trump recently achieved a legal victory when a New York appellate court significantly reduced his required appeal bond from $464 million to $175 million in a civil fraud case. Trump's legal team had argued that securing a bond for the full amount was nearly impossible,...
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The Magic 6%: These 5 Bond ETFs Now Offer Stock-Like Returns As Treasury Yields Jump To Multi-Decade Highs
Friday, August 18, 2023 - 2:38pm | 1188With escalating interest rates and inflationary pressures, the resiliency of bond investments is being put to the test. Investors find themselves watching helplessly as bond prices undergoe a relentless downward spiral, battered by the unrelenting blows of surging borrowing costs. The tumultuous...
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5 Bond ETFs To Watch As Debt Ceiling Talks Enter The Final Hours To Avoid A US Default
Friday, May 26, 2023 - 11:17am | 924The debt limit talk has reached its last and most important stage with just five days, or barely more than 100 hours, until the U.S. Treasury may run out of money. Both the stock and the bond market are likely to react strongly depending whether a deal is...
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Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Reportedly Raises $1.2B Via Yen Bonds After Massive Japan Bets
Friday, April 14, 2023 - 12:22am | 391Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE:BRK) (NYSE:BRK) has reportedly raised funds by issuing 164.4 billion yen ($1.2 billion) of bonds on Friday, just days after the billionaire investor said he had increased holdings in Japanese trading houses. What Happened: The company's five-part bond...
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This Billionaire Says One Factor Makes Bitcoin Superior To Gold: Here's What It Is
Saturday, April 30, 2022 - 10:30am | 381Mexico's third-richest man and a strong Bitcoin advocate, Ricardo Salinas Pliego says that gold is highly prone to manipulation, adding that the price of Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) is not as easy to exploit. It's easy to manipulate gold. Just think, the gold price is fixed in London...
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Fintech Focus For July 17, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 10:21am | 1949Daily Perspective: If we go through this period where we are reopening and reclosing and opening and reclosing, this, in my mind, will have a very negative effect on consumer confidence. - Harker Fintech Movers: Apps like Robinhood are impacting markets in a huge way. - Mohamed El-Erian Intern...
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Bond ETFs Set To Surge In Popularity
Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - 9:14am | 359Fifteen years ago today, Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS) entered the new world of exchange traded funds which focuses on bonds, CNBC's Bob Pisani reported. Fast forward to today, there are nearly 1,000 different bond ETFs in existence that hold a collective $700 billion in assets, $500 billion...
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Why Would Anyone Buy A Negative Yielding Bond? Simple: To Earn A Profit
Friday, September 9, 2016 - 3:07pm | 377Money managers who may be required to allocate a certain portion of cash in fixed income investments are faced with a simple problem: There are few opportunities where bond yields are attractive, let alone yielding a positive return. According to a CNBC report, large fund managers, such as...
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Jeff deGraaf On What Happens When Quantitative Easing Ends
Monday, October 27, 2014 - 12:38pm | 474Jeff deGraaf is the co-founder, chairman and head technical analyst at Renaissance Macro Research. Three weeks ago, his firm had a call that the 10-year bond market would trade under 2 percent. While the call was for the end of the first quarter, the firm still got it within three weeks....
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US Treasury Sells 30-Year Bonds At Record Low Yields
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 5:47pm | 397The U.S. Treasury Thursday sold 30-year bonds at record low yields of 2.58 percent, well below the previous auction's yield of 2.72 percent. The low yields confirm the flight to safety that has been seen in financial markets over the last few trading days. The U.S. Treasury sold $13 billion of 30-...
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Bond Bubble, I Think Not! (IEI, IEF, LQD, BND)
Thursday, October 7, 2010 - 4:57pm | 470Is there a bond bubble today? Many well known investors and portfolio managers certainly seem to think so. In fact about a month ago Jeremy Siegel came out with an article in the Wall Street Journal proclaiming a huge bond bubble was about to burst, even comparing this to the technology equity...
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What Does The Current Market Risk Premium Tell Us About Future Stock and Bond Returns?
Tuesday, September 7, 2010 - 7:41pm | 467Recently many analysts and commentators have been quoted saying things like 'Stocks have never been so attractively priced when compared to bonds', or ' equities are a no brainer compared to bonds for the coming decade', or ' beware the bond bubble'. Many of these analysts encourage an...