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Bond Market ’
Jun 18th, 2009 |
By Marc Lichtenfeld |
Category: Featured, Stock Market Investing
Both President Obama’s and Senator Kennedy’s healthcare plans are estimated to cost $1 trillion over 10 years. I’ll believe it when I see it. When was the last time the government completed any project on budget?
Tags: Biotech Stocks, Bond Market, Bond Prices, GENZ, Healthcare Reform, Marc Lichtenfeld, RRPIX, TBT, TEVA, U S Treasury, WPI
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Jun 9th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Top Story
The big daddy of underground investors, Jim Rogers, says the best way to play this downturn is to focus on commodities and agriculture ETFs (hat tip The Daily Crux). The primary logic behind this play is simple to understand.
Tags: Agriculture ETFs, Bond Market, Central Banks, commodity investing, Currency Crisis, Dba, GSG, Hap, inflation, investing in commodities, Jim Rogers, Pound sterling
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May 12th, 2009 |
By Contrarian Profits |
Category: Notes From the Investment Underground
The Treasury is having a tough time hawking US debt these days. This from today’s Financial Times: The 30-year Treasury yield rose to 4.30 per cent on Thursday from 4.10 per cent the day before after bids at the government auction came at lower prices than expected.
Tags: bond crisis, Bond Market, Bond Yields, Debt Bubble, Federal Reserve, Government Bonds, Investor Confidence, public debt, Rbc Capital Markets, TBT, Treasuries, Treasury Rates
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Feb 11th, 2009 |
By Bill Bonner |
Category: Financial News
The news this morning is as grey and damp as the weather. First, the U.S. stock market did nothing yesterday. The Dow ended down 9 measly points. The Dow is about 10% above its November low; have we seen the rebound already?
Tags: auto industry, Bill Bonner, Bond Market, Depression Rate, Gdp, Precious Metal, U S Stock Market, US inflation, Us Treasury Yields
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Jan 30th, 2009 |
By Richard Daughty |
Category: Politics & Economics
There was a photo of Tim Geithner, the former Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York who is going to be the next Treasury Secretary of the USA, on the front page of the Financial Times last Thursday, and it is spooky in several ways.
Tags: Bond Market, Federal Reserve, Federal Reserve Bank Of New York, Housing Market, Richard Daughty, Secretary Of The Treasury, Tim Geithner, US economy
Posted in Politics & Economics |
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Jan 27th, 2009 |
By Matthew Collins |
Category: Politics & Economics
We’ve been in a thirty-year bull market for US Treasuries, says Matthew Collins. And near-zero yields mean little reward for the risk of potentially buying into a bubble. Matthew says investors would do better to put their capital in select high-grade corporate debt or gold.
Tags: Bond Market, Gold Prices, high-grae corporate debt, investing in gold, Mathew Collins, safe haven investing, T Bills, Treasury Bonds, US Treasuries, zero interest rates
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Jan 22nd, 2009 |
By Steve McDonald |
Category: Financial News
Every market period, just like the one we are in right now, has the silver lining of giving the experienced investor the very real chance of making a fortune. Conditions are perfect for the run of a lifetime.
Look in any direction and there are bargains. Stocks, commodities, even corporate bonds, after their recent run up, have started to drop off to the point where there are nice discounts again.
Options, usually the Vegas of investments, have had huge potential in the last few months. I have sold covered calls in the last two months that have given me returns as high as four to five percent per month.
Once again, though, the average Joe is being driven to inaction and all the…
Tags: bear market, Bond Market, credit crisis, Steve McDonald, stock market investing, US recession, US stocks
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Jan 21st, 2009 |
By Alexander Green |
Category: Financial News
As I write, I’m here at The Oxford Club chapter meeting at the Intercontinental Hotel in Managua. When we’re not eating tortillas and sipping margaritas, my colleagues and I – along with about 60 Oxford Club members – are surveying the global economy, making assessments about what lies ahead for world stock and bond markets.
Tags: Alexander Green, Bond Market, Economic Downturn, Obama, US recession, US stocks
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Jan 14th, 2009 |
By Justice Litle |
Category: Politics & Economics
The money-printing hand writing is on the wall, says Justice Litle. A severe inflation threat is on the horizon. But the bond market is still pricing in a bout of deflation. And that makes Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) an amazing deal right now.
Tags: Bond Market, deflation, government bailout, government spending, Justice Litle, TIPS, Treasury Bonds, Us Inflation Rate, US recession
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Jan 14th, 2009 |
By Matthew Collins |
Category: Politics & Economics
Tax-free municipal bonds with historically high yields might look attractive to many investors. But Matthew Collins says the risk is still too high. Bloated and inefficient local governments are facing funding emergencies as revenues tumble and credit is squeezed. As the recession deepens in 2009, Matthew says muni bonds should be avoided.
Tags: Bond Market, credit crisis, high yields, local government debt, Mathew Collins, Muni bonds, state deficits, US recession
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