Bond Yields

The story hasn’t changed, but the digits have gotten bigger. The number of virus cases and the percentage of stock market losses both spiked dramatically early Monday, with futures pointing to a 2.5% drop as the disease spread in South Korea and Italy over the weekend. People need to strap in...

As this week comes to a close, it seems that traders and investors are continuing to focus on global growth worries stemming from trade fears and concerns about the eurozone economy. The U.S. market appears headed for its third down day in a row after European and Asian shares were mostly lower...

Company news and the corresponding reaction in their stock price tend to dominate news headlines, while bond-related news often gets ignored. Perhaps now is the worst time ever to ignore the bond market and the signal that it is sending, at least according to the New York Times. New York Times...

During the go-go days of the Federal Reserve's various versions of quantitative easing, a slew of high-yield sector and asset classes became investor favorites. That includes multi-asset exchange-traded funds, such as the First Trust Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund (First Trust...

Jeff deGraaf is the co-founder, chairman and head technical analyst at Renaissance Macro Research. Three weeks ago, his firm had a call that the 10-year bond market would trade under 2 percent. While the call was for the end of the first quarter, the firm still got it within three weeks....

The euro fell below $1.36 on Tuesday morning as markets began to digest the European Central Bank’s (ECB's) stimulus efforts. The common currency traded at $1.3591 at 7:45 GMT as the gap between eurozone and US Treasury yields widened. Reuters reported that analysts see the euro facing...

A key measure of manufacturing output in the eurozone rose in June to the highest level in sixteen months amid the continent wide recession that has seen unemployment, specifically of the younger population, rise to record levels. Spain and Italy both showed notable strength in June the...