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Bank of England Suspends Tightening Policy as Pound Nosedives — Central Bank to Start Purchasing Long-Dated UK Government Bonds – Economics Bitcoin News
Following the extremely volatile European markets during the past few days and the euro and pound dropping rapidly against the U.S. dollar, the Bank of England has decided to intervene in bond markets...
The U.K. Economy Is Having a Meltdown. Why It’s Going to Get Worse.
The recent sharp drop in the British pound and in U.K. government bonds means traders are at panic stations, with repercussions being felt across the globe. The spectacular drops in the past month wer...
British Currency Mess Set To Upend U.K.’s Housing Market
STOKE-ON-TRENT – JUNE 16: Various property signs are seen outside a block of terraced houses … [+] advertising homes for sale, let or sold on June 16, 2020 in Stoke-on-Trent. The British g...
How To Buy Corporate Bonds At 5% Discounts And 10%+ Yields
Bonds the word on wooden cubes, cubes stand on a reflective surface, in the background is a business … [+] diagram. Business and finance concept getty Today we’re in a situation that looks a lot...
Why Standard Deviation Is the Wrong Way to Measure Risk in a Bear Market
Illustration by Alex Nabaum Text size About the author: Rick Lear is the founder and chief investment officer at Lear Investment Management. The idea of adding to or maintaining fixed-income exposure ...
El Salvador Repurchased $565M Worth of Bonds Ideate to Launch New Offering in 8 Weeks
El Salvador repurchased its bonds maturing in 2023 and 2025 for $565M. On Wednesday, President Nayib Bukele informed that El Salvador purchased back its sovereign debt bonds maturing in 2023 and...
Is This The Worst Year Ever For Bonds?
| Getty Images Key takeaways With the fear of a recession, investors are looking for a safe investment with a decent return. But, as bond yields rise, bond prices fall, hurting returns. Since the Fed ...
I Bonds: You Can Lock In Sky-High Interest Rate
You have just a few weeks left to take advantage of one of those almost-too-good-to-be-true opportunities. You can invest in Treasury I bonds, also called Series I savings bonds, which pay an interest...
Ray Dalio says stocks, bonds have further to fall, sees U.S. recession in 2023
As the world waits for the Federal Reserve to deliver what’s expected to be its third “jumbo” interest-rate hike, Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio shared a warning for anybody still hanging on...
Why Are Stocks And Bonds Both Down? Part II
Photo taken inside an elevator going down to the second floor getty Part II: Stocks In my last article, I looked at how changes in interest rates affect bond prices. It might seem that stocks are very...
What the inverted yield curve means for your portfolio
Morsa Images | E+ | Getty Images As investors digest another 0.75 percentage point interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve, government bonds may be signaling distress in the markets. Ahead of news f...
Thinking about a Roth conversion? If you have an IRA, consider this ‘bear market bonus’
If you’ve been thinking about converting a traditional IRA to a Roth IRA, here’s the good news: This year’s market turmoil may be giving you a golden opportunity to do it. That’s because the stocks an...
Jeffrey Gundlach says bonds are ‘wickedly cheap’ compared to stocks — and offers one way to get a 9% return without much risk
You can forgive Jeffrey Gundlach, a long-suffering Buffalo Bills fan, if he has the NFL on his mind now that the team he supports looks like the Super Bowl favorite. The chief executive of DoubleLine ...
Fed should hike interest rate rates 150 basis points: Wells Fargo
It’s a move that would likely cause panic on Wall Street. But Wells Fargo Securities’ Michael Schumacher suggests the Federal Reserve is raising rates too slowly, telling CNBC’s R...
Texas Pushes Back With Municipal Bonds
Texas makes a stand getty Political push-back comes in many forms. In a September 12, 2022 amendment to a municipal bond Official Statement for bonds issued by the City of Anna, Texas, they drew a gia...
Should You Still Hold Bonds?
NEW YORK, NY – FEBRUARY 25: It’s been among the worst years ever for bond investments in many major … [+] markets, so do bonds still make sense in your portfolio? (Photo by Scott Hei...
Buy I Bonds Now at 9.6%. A New Rate Comes in November.
Text size The rate on I bonds hit a record 9.6% for bonds purchased starting in May and continuing through the end of October. Dreamstime One of the best current deals in the bond market—Treasury Seri...
Bulls Get Scorched by FedEx. Don’t Expect the Fed to Help.
Text size FedEx’s disappointing earnings and unexpectedly weak guidance were key factors in this past week’s stock market swoon. David Paul Morris/Bloomberg The stock market faces a doubly poisonous c...
The worst year in U.S. history for the 60:40 portfolio
This year is not shaping up to be the worst in U.S. history for a balanced 60% stock/40% bond portfolio. It’s important to point this out not just to correct the misleading historical narrative that h...
This Is a Good Time to Buy Short-Term Bonds
Until recently, short-term bonds were a yield wasteland: A two-year Treasury note yielded 0.21% a year ago and just 1% in January. Today, the yield is over 3.8% and could soon touch 4%, thanks in good...
Markets Are Spooked by Inflation. Cathie Wood and Elon Musk See a Bigger Issue
It’s no secret that investors are worried about runaway prices for goods and services, with the stock market on track to post its worst weekly run since mid-June and also nearing its worst performance...
US Bonds Rise as Expectations of Interest Rate Hike Sweep through Wall Street
With trust placed on the Federal Reserve Open Market Committee (FOMC), we can expect the more targeted interest rate hikes to help allay fears that inflation will be detrimental to growth. US obnd yie...
Senator Toomey: Crypto is ‘sufficiently different’ from stocks or bonds
Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) a ranking member of the US Senate Banking Committee says Congress needs to step in on the issue of cryptocurrency regulation. Particularly, Sen. Toomey points to the US Securiti...
Why TIPS might be a smart place to park some money right now
Inflation is running at 8% or higher, depending on how you count it (and who’s counting). The Federal Reserve is clearly panicking. And the markets are clearly panicking too. So at this point, Uncle S...