Japan’s bonds complete biggest weekly loss since April
Punch
Bonds also dropped as local stocks gained and 10-year Treasury yields increased, rising to 3.85 per cent on Friday. “Bonds are in a negative environment before the US jobs data,” said Shinji Kunibe, a Tokyo-based senior investor at JPMorgan...
Long Bonds Fall Ahead of Jobs Report
CNBC
Longer dated U.S. Treasury debt prices fell on Monday, pushing benchmark yields up near seven-month highs, as the market prepared for the possibility of a strong U.S. jobs report later this week. There is plenty of data before Friday's payr...
It's Time to Cash In Old U.S. Bonds
Wall Street Journal
Bonds don't expire, but holding onto matured bonds is like keeping money under the mattress. You're earning nothing. (The good news is that, unlike money under your mattress, there are ways, through the U.S. Treasury, to recover savings bon...
Plotting Out 2010
Forbes
As the markets started to recover last year, some investors eased into riskier assets, swapping their cash for bonds and bonds for equities. This is the natural way of recoveries and is one reason domestic ownership of U.S. Treasury bonds i...
Rethinking market mix
Seattle Times
... time, if rates rise the income you're getting from the portfolio should rise, assuming the fund is buying new bonds at higher rates. Consider what happened in 2009 with the Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury fund, which owns Treasury b...
Congo, Nigeria, S. Africa: Sub-Saharan Bond, Currency Preview
BusinessWeek
... and economy reports may influence trading in sub-Saharan African bonds and currencies today. Bond yields and exchange rates are from the previous session. Democratic Republic of Congo: The country plans to sell Treasury bills at an auct...
U.S. 2-Year Notes Rise Most in Five Months as Jobs Decline
BusinessWeek
debt widened to near the most ever before the Treasury sells $84 billion in notes and bonds next week. Minutes of the Federal Reserve’s December meeting released Jan. 6 showed policy makers intend to keep interest rates near zero for an ext...
Getting Nervous About Reverse Repos
Seekingalpha.com
I wanted to inject a word of caution regarding the reverse repo market. Almost everyone has said that it is necessary for short term interest rates to rise once the Fed gets rid of Treasury bonds on their books by the method of the reverse ...
Bonds mixed after jobs report
CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Treasurys were mixed on Friday after the government posted a larger than expected jobs decline. What prices are doing: The benchmark 10-year note was up 1/32 at 96-12/32, and the yield was 3.83%. Bond prices and y...
Bonds fall on employment outlook
CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Treasury prices were slightly lower Thursday as investors braced themselves for the government's employment report. What prices are doing: The benchmark 10-year bond fell less than 1/32 to 96-11/32, and the yield ...
Stocks Beat Treasuries in Record Win: Chart of Day (Update1)
Bloomberg
Jan. 4 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. stocks beat 30-year Treasury bonds by a record 36 percentage points in 2009 as investors bet on a recovering economy and the government sold a record $2.11 trillion in debt. The CHART OF THE DAY shows the performa...