Fixed Income
News and analysis of fixed income markets including the key factors affecting performance such as interest rates, Federal Reserve policy and the state of the economy.
Powell: Fed Has No Playbook for Trump's Trade War
By Brian ChappattaThe Fed chair calls the policy unprecedented, and the president wastes no time in proving him right.
August 20, 2019
Investors Are Looking for Yield in All the Wrong PlacesThese alternative investments make some unorthodox tradeoffs, but they can generate more income than conventional strategies.
August 19, 2019
Business Economists Expect US Recession to Start in 2020 or 2021A shift in monetary policy is seen as extending the current economic expansion and delaying the start of the next U.S. recession.
August 19, 2019
Treasury Said to Be Considering 50- and 100-Year BondsUltra-long Treasury debt could help finance a growing budget deficit.
August 19, 2019
How to Fight the Next RecessionCutting interest rates isn't going to cut it, according to BlackRock and BNY Mellon's Insight Investment.
August 15, 2019
Powell Poised to Seek Another Fed Cut Despite Strong SpendingThe anticipated move comes as yields on the 10-year Treasury drop below 1.5% for the first time since 2016.
August 14, 2019
Stocks Suffer Worst Selloff of the Year; Dow Falls 800 PointsThe S&P lost 3%, the 30-year Treasury bond yield fell to a new low and 2-year/10-year Treasury yields inverted.
August 14, 2019
Inverted Yield Curve: 3 Things to KnowLPL stategist John Lynch lays out the good and the bad associated with the latest key market development.