Via arbitrage, the yield on a long-term bond should equate to investors’ expectations of the average federal-funds rate over ...

A small coterie of Wall Street dealers say it’s time for the US Treasury to resume increasing the size of its 30-year ...

The first central bank meetings of 2025 suggest it will be a year in which policymakers go their own way as economic paths ...

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Surely, then, it is a bad time to own catastrophe bonds? These are securities that ... Issuance has boomed and the market has doubled in size over the past ten years. It is now worth $50bn.

US government bonds had their best day in months after benign inflation data revived the case for additional Federal Reserve interest-rate cuts. The rally slashed Treasury yields across maturities ...

Michael M. Santiago / Staff / Getty Images Stocks provide greater return potential than bonds, but with greater volatility along the way. Bonds are issued and sold as a "safe" alternative to the ...

The U.S. bond market is broadly down so far this year, with funds that provide exposure to fixed-income assets hurt by a recent rapid ascent in Treasury yields seen since September. Back To Top ...

Municipal bonds fund public projects, offering interest twice a year and principal at maturity. You can invest in municipal bonds through new issues, the secondary market, or bond funds.

Both stocks and bonds are selling off right now, a shift from their past relationship. Until the past few weeks, stocks continued to climb to records as bond prices fell. Recently the S&P 500 ...

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New York – For those unsettled by the relentless rise in government bond yields in the US and across much of the world lately, the message from markets is getting clearer by the day: Get used to it.