By Michael Fabian:The fixed-income strategy that has been "working" over the past several months is elongating duration when the 10-year Treasury Yield hits 2%, then simply riding down the curve when rates near 1.5%. Portfolio managers that have grit

Curve Watchers Anonymous has been watching a major selloff in Japanese bonds. Here are a couple charts to consider.10-Year Japanese Government Bond Yield5-Year Japanese Government Bond YieldSince March 4, the 5-year yield has gone from 0.1% to 0.43%.

ByJohn Early:Like the stealth bomber which is almost invisible to radar, the coming recession is almost invisible to leading indicators. The yield curve which has been reliable for decades is useless right now. Other indicators are hopelessly out of

* Greek 10-year yield falls below 30-year for 1st time since 2010

* Greek 10-year yield falls below 30-year for 1st time since 2010

LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - The Greek government bond yield curve returned to an uphill shape on Tuesday, as investors continued to price out default risks after last week's sovereign ratings upgrade...

Curve Watchers Anonymous has its eye on global interest rates. For example, please consider this chart of 10-Year Japanese bonds.click on chart for sharper imageChart courtesy of Steen Jakobsen, chief economist at Saxo Bank in Denmark.I have been pay

* Yield curve steepens as 30-yr yield rises to highest since March 21

Today?s dramatic steepening of the Treasury yield curve in the wake of a strong employment report showed corporate treasurers at the top of their game, after an who?s-who list of blue-chip borrowers swarmed the markets earlier this week with meaty tr

* Yield curve steepens as investors take profits in superlongs * 10-yr futures end down, one tick above session low * PIMCO: 'greatest comfort' in JGBs with maturities under 10 years By Lisa...

* Yield curve flattens a day after BOJ adjusts its operations plan

The Fed is likely to lag the markets, as they do in most cycles. The markets will probably anticipate the Fed reversing QE. The Fed will surprise few investors. The Fed should reverse QE in a yield curve-neutral way, in our view. Steepening the curv

By Marc Chandler:The new week has begun off like the last week ended.The yen and the dollar are firm against the major and emerging market currencies. The sell-off in the precious metals continues. Japanese bond yields rose and the yield curve steepe

The new week has begun off like the last week ended.  The yen and the dollar are firm against the major and emerging market currencies.  The sell-off in the precious metals continues.  Japanese bond yields rose and the yield curve stee

* Ten-year yield falls to near-decade low for 3rd straight day

TOKYO, March 25 (Reuters) - Japanese government bond prices mostly gained on Monday and the yield curve flattened as expectations the Bank of Japan will step up buying in longer maturities...

An old buy-and-hold strategy is finding new fans among Treasury investors. Using a strategy called the rolldown, bond investors are purchasing longer-dated debt and planning to hold the securities for a few years.

Long-term interest rates are a series of future short-term rates. That necessarily means that an interest-rate targetting central bank exerts the dominant influence not just on the short end in its currency area, but across the yield curve.Neverthele

Here are some insights into spread trading strategies and how to read spread charts, especially as related to the Fed's zero interest rate policy.

Before everyone gets too excited about the "great rotation" that still remains a ghost, keep in mind that the entire curve is still >1 standard deviation below its historical mean (from 1990 in this case). There is a long way to go befo

By Regarded Solutions:Last week I wrote this article about my opinion of the widening yield curve spread, and if it was a buy signal for Annaly Capital (NLY). As of today I will be adding this stock back into the Team Alpha portfolio.I am basing my d

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- Despite the best efforts of the Federal Reserve, long-term interest rates are rising, which can greatly benefit some banks over the short term.But with short-term rates likely to stay put for quite some time, investors need to

One of the easiest and time tested strategies for making money investing in bonds is called rolling down the yield curve.  The strategy involves buying longer dated bonds and selling them after 2 to 3 years to profit from their

The belly of the curve got whacked in today's $29 billion 7 Year auction, when the high yield of today's debt issuance came at some 1.416% (32.5% allotted at the high), outside the 1.408% When Issued, the first tail on a 7 Year of short maturity bond

By Regarded Solutions:Ever since the CFPB mortgage lending rules were announced (I wrote this article), I have been keeping an eye on the mortgage activity as well as the yield curve. If indeed the yield curve has once again begun to widen, the rules

NEW YORK, Jan 28 (IFR) - The State of Israel on Mondayraised US$2bn from a dual-tranche bond issue that is expected tohelp the government extend the duration of its yield curve andtake advantage of positive investor sentiment.

One of the clearest signs yet that debt ceiling fears have faded from the market is the recent shift in the yield curve for short-term U.S. Treasury bills. At this point, it looks like the Republican party has completely backed down from the debt cei

It was December 2007, the month the U.S. economy fell into a recession that was to last 18 months. The residential real estate market, two years past its prime, was starting to fray. The yield curve, the leadingest of the leading indicators, had been

* Mexican peso firms to ten month high, up 0.2 pct* Brazil keeps Selic at all-time low, warns of inflation* Brazilian real up 0.21 pctBy Walter BrandimarteRIO DE JANEIRO, Jan 17...

* Brazil keeps Selic at all-time low, warns of inflation* Brazil shorter-dated rates fall, longer-dated rates up* Chile's Pinera appears to dismiss fears of FX intervention* Brazil...

By Dean Popplewell: The European markets have thrown a slight curve ball this morning;opening up in a downbeat mood after helicopter Ben’s speech lateyesterday afternoon has failed to inspire traders. While insisting thatthe U.S. economy was still

* 5-yr notes outperform; yield matches December's 9 1/2-yrlow* 30-yr yields touch 16-month high; 5-, 30-yr yield spreadat widest since March 2010* Benchmark 10-yr yield off highs as...

TOKYO, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Benchmark Japanese governmentbonds recovered from an early dip on Friday on bargain huntingby regional banks, while the yield curve steepened on growingexpectations that...

On Wednesday, I posted a chart of US Treasury Yields asking the question Yield Curve: Where To From Here? Extreme Complacency in Face of Bernanke Shift.Today's focus is on municipal bonds, but first let's take a look at a chart from the above link.Tr

After a somewhat lengthy hiatus, Curve Watcher's Anonymous is taking a good long look at the US treasury yield curve. Treasury Yield Curveclick on chart for sharper imageQE Ending in 2013?There have been three consecutive headfakes higher in treasury

Inquiring minds note the Nikkei is up 293 points (2.8%) to 10,688 as the Japanese 30-Year Yield is Highest Since 2011.Thirty-year yields climbed to levels unseen since December 2011, tilting the so-called yield curve to the steepest level in 17 month

Looking ahead, the flattening of the yield curve during the past 2 years (thanks, Dr. Bernanke!) means that stock prices will be under downward pressure.

A trader looks back at past yield curve signals and the popular delusion of the US long bond.

Gold futures tanked today falling nearly 2% for a combination of reasons, according to a futures trader consulted by Business Insider.  He pointed to rates rising at the higher end of the yield curve (the 10-Year and the 30-Year) noting tha

TOKYO, Dec 17 (Reuters) - Long-dated Japanese governmentbond prices fell and the yield curve faced pressures to steepenon Monday after the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), whichfavours aggressive...

  Today the US Federal Reserve announced that it would be implementing QE 4: a policy of spending $45 billion per month buying Treasuries on the long-end of the yield curve until employment falls to 6.5%.   So between this and QE 3 which wa

We’ll hear again from the 4th branch of government today, the Federal Reserve, to tell us their plan to replace the upcoming expiration of Smother the Yield Curve. Between Fed speeches and WSJ articles, it seems likely that we’ll get $45b

By Brad Thomas:Investors are desperate to get more income out of their fixed-income portfolios. So desperate, they may be taking on more investment risk than they realize either in extending out maturity on the yield curve or going down the credit qu

In a way, I guess you can say the Fed is having the impact they were hoping for.  At least when it comes to crushing the yield curve and inducing some borrowing.  But the funny thing is that the lending boom isn’t occurring in the sector of t

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