treasury market

The recent surge in long-term bond yields in the U.S. is a reflection of the nation’s economic robustness, not the expanding fiscal deficit, according to U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen. Yellen suggests the rise in yields — which has resulted in benchmark Treasury rates reaching...

In the pre-pandemic era, bond investments were largely the domain of institutional funds, shielded from the hustle and bustle of the retail-trading world. And who could blame them. Fixed-income portfolio managers and analysts faced the Herculean task of seeking returns in a global environment...

Eye Of The Storm From our front row at Lehman Brothers, we assure you iTesting the Fiscal Limitt was not the case that no one saw the Global Financial Crisis coming. With that in mind, the Treasury market’s struggle to absorb supply in the belly of the curve (2s, 5s and 7s), was a...

Friday's much anticipated jobs report brought some buying into the equity market and a pull back in long-term bond rates. After rallying much of the week, the 10-year note sold off two basis points and closed at 2.43 percent. Inside The Jobs Report The overall U.S. economy added 248,00...