"There is a lot of pent-up demand," economists and policymakers are too negative on the economy, says Lloyd Blankfein. The "big risk is that things go right " with the global economy. TLT +26% , TBT -49% Y/Y. 1 comment!
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… quarter point, with the yield dropping 3 bps to 3.19%. The 10-year yield is threatening a one-handle again, dropping 2.6 bps to 2.03%. TLT +2.3% premarket. A favorite of the shorts, TBT -4.7% premarket. Post your comment!
… diving more than a full point over the last 90 minutes, retracing about half of its big weekly gain. The yield pops 5.4 bps to 3.33%, the yield on the 10-year +4.7 bps to 2.21%. TLT -1.5% , TBT +2.8% . Post your comment!
By Ploutos : Uncertainty abounds with regards to future interest rate movements in the long end of the Treasury curve. For obligations that often serve as a proxy for the "risk-free rate" in finance, given the full faith and credit backstop of the U.S. government, the returns of Treasury bonds in
By Kevin McElroy : Owning gold is my favorite way to benefit from the goofy problems caused by our feckless leadership. But another great opportunity is to go short long-term Treasury prices. Boring right? Hear me out. I wouldn't be the first journalist or analyst to call shorting US Treasuries the
By Shmulik Karpf : The U.S debt market is the most important financial market in the world. All the financial instruments we know either depend on it directly or are highly correlated with it. How big is the U.S debt, really? As of February 2012, the "debt held by the public" was $10.7 trillion and
The cool CPI number fails to stem the run in long-dated Treasurys, the 30-year +4 bps to 3.45%, the 10-year +5.5 bps to 2.33%. TLT -0.6% , TBT +1.2% premarket. Post your comment!
By Kevin Mulhern : The trade has been talked about by many of the most reputable fund managers. People, including myself in a December 2009 article , have anticipated the top for several years now. Yet those who have been short US Treasuries have been treated to constantly declining yields. For the
… Fed's latest policy statement showed more optimism and seems to have opened the floodgates to higher yields, and traders and investors had taken a lot of short positions. TLT -2.5% , Ultra-Short ETF TBT +5.1% . Post your comment!