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.
What’s Next for GDP? Prudential Panelists Agree on Growth, Sort of
By James J. GreenEd Keon is quite bullish, while Quincy Krosby et al. take a more reserved, though optimistic, view on where economy and markets are headed.
June 26, 2013
ETF Investors Move Into Shorter Duration, Senior Loans in Bond Selloff: SSgAIn a midyear 2013 SPDR ETF outlook released Monday, SSgA said investors remain interested in adding to their fixed-income exposure through ETFs even as the prospects of future positive total returns are weakening.
June 26, 2013
What’s at Stake for Muni Bond Investors in Detroit InsolvencyIn what may be the most severe case of credit distress since the Great Depression, the city of Detroit is charting new territory in negotiations with creditors to avert a Chapter 9 bankruptcy filing.
June 26, 2013
PIMCO’s Gross: Fed’s Right on Ending QE, but Bernanke Spoke Too FastBill Gross believes Ben Bernanke has failed to see problems plaguing the U.S. economy: wages dampened by globalization, an aging society and technology's elimination of jobs.
June 26, 2013
Fed’s Fisher Tempers ‘Taper Tantrum’ TalkThe Dallas Fed president employed his usual folksy metaphors to describe investor behavior, comparing them to wild pigs.
June 24, 2013
Taper Tantrum: Markets Recoil, Advisors Scramble on Fed NewsWhether its stocks, bonds, emerging markets or ETFs, investors want financial advisors to tell them how to protect their portfolios.
June 24, 2013
Hussman: Gonna Party Like It’s 1929Besides today, Hussman sees just four other times1929, 1987, 2000 and 2007, none joyous for investorsmarked by similar market conditions.
June 20, 2013
Gross, Gundlach, Faber Batter Bernanke as Stocks TumbleGundlach doesnt like bond alternatives, Gross doesnt like the Fed, Faber doesnt like Obama and Schiff doesnt like anybody. Judging from Wednesdays and Thursdays stock sell-off, they might be on to something.