Sentences with phrase «bonds rally on»

World shares and bonds rallied on Thursday, after the Federal Reserve left U.S. interest rates unchanged and slowed the pace of future hikes, weakening the dollar and lifting commodity prices.

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That data raised a fresh round of questions about how the Federal Reserve will proceed on further cutting back on its massive monthly bond purchases, which have kept long - term rates low and encouraged a strong rally on equity markets.

LONDON, April 10 - Russia's rouble tumbled on Tuesday and some Russian bonds plumbed record lows in the wake of U.S. sanctions, but the broader emerging markets complex rallied, encouraged by China's promise to reduce import tariffs.

The European Central Bank is all but certain to cut back on its bond - buying stimulus on Thursday, one of the biggest factors supporting the rally in global stock markets in recent months.

Bond traders also keep an eye on the VIX, a measure of stock - market volatility, since it has historically been highly correlated to the performance of stocks: rising when stocks sell off and falling when stocks rally.

Caused by worries of a summer interest rate hike and uptick in the U.S. dollar, gold and silver both stalled in May but have since rallied on the back of Brexit and with government bond yields in freefall.

Junk - bond ETFs rallied on Wednesday, as markets breathed relief that the «fiscal cliff» is no longer a concern and as a result, bond yields are under 6 percent for the first time ever, and junk ETF share prices hit levels not seen in years in some cases, according to an article on ETF Trends.

Treasury bond prices rallied and yields on the 10 - year fell to between 2.8 % and 2.85 % following the release of benign inflation data and weaker - than - expected retail sales figures.

U.S. bonds have been rallying for several months, but that came to an abrupt end last week as the yield on the 10 - year U.S. Treasury bond rose to 1.95 % while two - year yields surged from 0.49 % to nearly 0.65 %.

As bond yields surged on Friday, high - yielding segments of the equity market such as utilities and REITs came under the most pressure, which shows that it won't take much of a rise in yields to derail their rally.

He would also use any rallies to lighten up on stocks that perform like bonds, such as utilities or telecoms.

Hungary's bonds and stocks rallied after the government sold the planned amount of debt at an auction on optimism Prime Minister Viktor Orban will be able to restart talks on an international bailout.

Treasury yields fall after tepid eurozone inflation data spark German bund rally European government bonds strengthened as inflation weakensTreasury yields retreat on Thursday by falling rates in European government bonds after eurozone inflation data came in weaker than expected.

If the Dollar broke lower, its likely too that bonds and duration would rally; defensives (staples, utes, reits) and growth (tech / biotech / discret) squeeze against crowded value unwinding (fins, energy, indus); yen and euro would squeeze mightily; gold squeezes while copper pukes in a favorite commodities «pair» unwind; HY could reverse weaker vs IG (currently everybody long CCC vs BB on the high beta trade)... this would be the theoretical path to our next pain - trade or even VaR shock.

From a «consensual positioning» perspective which touches on this current «mean - reversion dynamic in the marketplace: say this big bond rally were to gather steam into a much more punishing squeeze of the «all - time» UST short base (largely due to the previously mentioned lack of «tolerance» for beginning of year performance pain).

Then late in the week, stocks rallied on some strong earnings reports and economic data, with a better - than - expected initial reading on first - quarter GDP pushing bond - yield lower on Friday and easing some earlier week concerns about inflation.

The narrative of higher rates being a headwind for gold seems to be falling apart, as the 10 year yield in the US seems to be on an upswing, and gold is rallying at the same time that bond values fall.

Equity markets have rallied further, while credit spreads on bonds have narrowed.

Low rates are good for bonds, so they rallied on this news.

The US Fed indicated further moves would be dependent on global factors and oil prices — a key detail signifying that future rate hikes seem likely to develop on a slower scale, causing a European government bond market rally on Thursday, sending yields lower in the region.

Emerging market equity funds stood out on the equity side with a category return of 3.64 % while the long government bond category rallied and closed the month up 5.83 %.

The equity side of my portfolio had definitely gotten heavy with this past year's rally — for me it's looking like a good time to start concentrating on the bond - side of my portfolio.

This bond breakout underway is issuing a stark warning: Get out of passive stock investments and real estate on any near - term rallies... If yields spike, as I expect we'll see, it'll send both asset classes into free fall.

Now the only «rally talk» is centering on how high longer - term bond yields might climb.

(ETF.com: Sep 29, 2016) ETF.com said that while it's impossible to know whether the next Federal Reserve rate hike will cause «a rally in interest rates (and sell - off in bonds)... there are many tools available in the ETF world to minimize the impact of higher rates, or even capitalize on them.»

My Grandpa on my father's side thought he was clever investing in short - term CDs, but he never changed on that, and forever missed the rally in stocks and long bonds that kicked off in 1982.

Which is a terrifying reminder of the underlying economic reality since then — in the absence of trillions of monetary (& fiscal) stimulus, and the bond & equity market rallies they've induced, quite obviously something more like (or even worse than) Japan's lost decade (or two) would otherwise have been on the cards (& might still be)...

The Fed will make its next announcement on interest rates and provide some clarity on the end of quantitative easing, the stimulus program of massive bond buying that kept long - term rates low and encouraged a rally on stock markets.

And here's the rub: high yield bonds do not react to yields on Treasuries, except negatively, because when Treasuries rally hard, times are not good, and high yield bonds do poorly, with yields rising.

Of course, yields on 10 - year Treasuries (USGG10YR) have since fallen to 2.6 percent from 3 percent at the end of December and company bonds have resumed their rally.

6) Junk bonds have rallied to a high degree; at this point I say, underweight them — the default losses are coming, and the yields on the indexes don't reflect that.