Bond Veterans Say Market Wrong to See Fed Hikes Ending Near 2%

(Bloomberg) — To a growing faction of Wall Street bond veterans, investors are making a major miscalculation by betting the Federal Reserve’s coming cycle of interest-rate hikes will end with it...

El Salvador Bitcoin Bond Commitments Top $500 Million

Investor commitments towards El Salvador’s bitcoin-backed bonds have now crossed $500 million, according to Blockstream chief strategy officer Samson Mow. The news comes as El Salvador finance ministe...

El Salvador plans to issue first bitcoin bond next month

El Salvador plans to issue its first “bitcoin bond” next month, finance minister Alejandro Zelaya said on February 8. Speaking on a local news program, Zelaya said that the government is planning to h...

Bitfinex laundering defendants released on multimillion bond

FBI agents arrested New York resident Heather Morgan and her husband Ilya Lichtenstein for allegedly conspiring to launder crypto connected to the 2016 Bitfinex hack, in which 119,756 Bitcoin (BTC/USD...

Jump Trade Joins Tradeweb’s European Government Bond Market

Tradeweb Markets (Nasdaq: TW), an electronic marketplace for financial instruments, announced on Monday that Jump Trading has joined its European Government Bond marketplace. With this, Jump Trading c...

Forget About Inflation. Contrarians Expect a Recession and a Drop in Bond Yields.

“Something that everyone knows isn’t worth knowing,” as the famed financier Bernard Baruch once observed. And so I was reminded by a long discourse in the New York Times this past week on why bond yie...

Stocks Fall, Bond Yields Surge After U.S. Economy Adds Back 467,000 Jobs In January

Topline The stock market fell on Friday while bond yields surged after the U.S. economy added back a much higher-than-expected 467,000 new jobs in January, a sign to investors that the Federal Reserve...

American Dream megamall nearly empties its reserves to make a bond payment

American Dream megamall and entertainment complex in East Rutherford, N.J. After more than 17 years in the making, it finally opened October 25, 2019. Then came the coronoavirus pandemic. Timothy A. C...

AMC to raise $500 million in bond sale as it seeks to refinance debt

An AMC theatre is pictured in Times Square in the Manhattan borough of New York City, New York, June 2, 2021. Carlo Allegri | Reuters Movie theater chain AMC Entertainment plans to sell $500 million i...

Positive Side Of Falling Bond Prices

Getty Images If bond prices move inversely with yields, how can there be any good news in the past few months’ sharp rise in Treasury rates? Andrew W. Lo and Stephen R. Foerster’s recently published b...

This Popular Bond Fund Is A Retirement Disaster

Retirement disaster getty “Daddy. Can you come play with me in the playroom?” my four-year-old asked. “Sure. I’ll be right in,” I said. “Once I get done unloading the dishwasher. Would you like to hel...

Crypto market suppressed as bond yields climb

According to billionaire investor Mike Novogratz, the crypto market will continue to be under pressure while bond yields climb higher. The US 10 year bond has spiked over the last 5 weeks and is curre...

Bitcoin Rebounds Past $42K Amid Increasing Bond Yields and Spike in Retail Interest

According to a TradingView chart, Bitcoin (BTC) rebounds from intraday lows of $41,138 to reach highs of $42,528 seen at press time. The altcoin market was also showing signs of recovery as tokens suc...

Is GBP/USD a buy or sell as UK and US bond yields rise?

The GBP/USD price moved sideways after the strong UK consumer price index (CPI) data. The pair is trading at 1.3597, which is about 1.10% below the highest level last week. UK consumer inflation jumps...

Cardano’s ADA Token Leads Crypto Majors Lower, Bitcoin Nears $41K as Bond Yields Rise

At press time, ADA was trading near $1.36, a 10.6% fall in the last 24-hour. Scaling solution Polygon’s MATIC token fell 6% even as the network implemented Ethereum’s fee-burning mechanism...

DXY: US dollar index forms break and retest as bond yields surge

The US dollar index (DXY) jumped sharply as investors focused on the ongoing bond sell-off in the United States. It rose to $95.70,  which is about 1.25% above the lowest level last week. Bond sell-of...

Dual Bond And Stock Bear Markets Look Likely

A dual market selloff headline getty Everybody’s talking about higher inflation and rising interest rates, but are they worried? Not really. The Fed’s on the case, so investors are asking,...

Chinese Developer Bond Rout Deepens on Hidden Debt Concerns

(Bloomberg) — Fresh turmoil rocked Chinese property bonds on Monday on concern over the true scale of the industry’s hidden debts, deepening a selloff among higher-rated firms. Most Read from Bl...

Bond Buying Breaks Record – Trustnodes

More bonds were bought in November than all of 2020, 2019 and 2017 combined, and twice more were bought in December than all of 2018, itself a record year. Call it the power of Wallstreetbets where th...

Stocks, Futures Mixed as Bond Yields March Higher: Markets Wrap

(Bloomberg) — Stocks were mixed Monday as traders weighed a global advance in sovereign bond yields and corporate developments. Most Read from Bloomberg Europe’s Stoxx 600 Index rose, while U.S....

The World’s First Decentralized Bond Market Has Arrived

By 2021, Statista found that there were over nearly 6,000 cryptocurrencies in existence, a staggering increase from the handful of digital tokens in 2013. With the rapidly evolving and expanding crypt...

Should I Put All My Bond Money Into TIPS?

U.S. Department Of Poor Bond Returns (photo by Samuel Corum) © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP “Last year I moved a small amount of my 401(k) into the Vanguard Inflation Protected Securities fund. Turned ou...

Bitcoin Is Massively Overvalued, Billionaire ’Bond King’ Jeff Gundlach

Billionaire Jeff Gundlach has shared his thoughts around bitcoin, saying that the digital asset is massively overvalued. Gundlach who is also known as the ‘Bond King’ is the founder of the investment ...

The yield curve is no longer sending a don’t-worry-be-happy signal, warns bond king Jeffrey Gundlach

The S&P 500 SPX, +0.28% snapped a five-session losing streak on Tuesday, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell vowed the central bank would use its “tools” to get inflation under control wi...

Worried About Inflation? Check Out This 7% Treasury Savings Bond.

Text size The Treasury Building Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images One of the best deals for savers now are Treasury Series I savings bonds now paying a 7.12% interest rate. The savings bonds, available el...

CME Group to Introduce 20-Year US Treasury Bond Futures

On January 10, CME Group, a major security and commodity exchange company, announced that it will launch futures on 20-year US Treasury bonds on March 7. The 20-year bond future will help investors be...

‘Bond King’ Jeffery Gundlach predicts the dollar will dive — which means these 3 assets could shine

‘Bond King’ Jeffery Gundlach predicts the dollar will dive — which means these 3 assets could shine Expectations of a more hawkish Fed have strengthened the U.S. dollar — but according to one billiona...

For Issuing Bitcoin Bond El Salvador Government Introduces 20 Bills To Render Legal Framework

The 20 bills will help El Salvador’s government establish the legal and financial framework for the Volcano Bonds, the $1 billion Bitcoin bond issue. President Bukele also said that the government wou...

El Salvador to legalize Bitcoin bond issuance through 20 legislative bills

Months after officiating Bitcoin as legal tender, during which it saw severe global criticism and domestic protests, the El Salvadoran government continues on its quest to evolve the top cryptocurrenc...

‘China is uninvestable,’ says Bond king Jeffrey Gundlach

Investors may want to think twice about putting their money to work in China, contends DoubleLine founder Jeffrey Gundlach.  “China is uninvestible, in my opinion, at this point,” the bond...

Protect Your Muni Bond Portfolio From A Tornado’s Ravages

Tornadoes Rip Through Alabama (Getti) Getty Images I haven’t written about natural disasters affecting municipal bonds since 2019. The recent Kentucky tornados jolted me to pen this. When disasters ha...