Sentences with phrase «for bond market»

«Once again we are in a tight range for the bond market from 2.27 percent to 2.62 percent and we haven't broken either level once,» Mohtashami said.

If you take the S&P 500 to represent the stock market and the Bloomberg Barclays Aggregate U.S. Bond Index for the bond market, it's easy to see that stocks and bonds haven't tended to move in lockstep.

In a strategy piece published in mid-June, National Bank ETF analyst Daniel Straus and his colleagues laid out two possible paths for the bond market and offered ways investors can act accordingly.

² — See, «What is the Worst Case Scenario for Bonds» if you want an even more extreme scenario analysis for the bond market.

I submit there are NO valid price signals (P / B, P / E, TBV, etc.) to determine intrinsic value to aid capital investment while the Federal Reserve distorts the entire economy with: 1 - negative real after inflation interest rates and 2 — increases the monetary base by multiples with unlimitied quantitave easing for the bond market (ie; QE4 - EVA).

While I think it's reasonable to lower your expectations for bond market returns and allow for higher volatility because of the level of rates, it seems to me that many of the fears about fixed income are overblown.

Last, strong employment numbers out of the U.S. pointed to possible Fed rate hikes, which is always a catalyst for a bond market sell - off.

Clearly, calling the bottom of a market is no easier for the bond market than it is for the stock market.

Investors are looking at and now preparing for a bond market collapse which will probably start in the third quarter of 2011.

It was the best year we ever had, amid the worst year for the bond market in 60 + years.

For example, the total return for the bond market has not only beaten the total return for the stock market in the period, the risk - adjusted reward for investment grade bond ownership has been far greater than the risk - adjusted nominal gains in stocks.

Interest rates change in response to a number of factors — changes in supply and demand for credit, fiscal policy, exchange rates, economic conditions, and crucial for the bond market, changes in expectations of inflation.

To that end, I offer up my five predictions for the bond market in 2018:

Last week's bi-partisan Puerto Rico Restructuring Bill also referred to as the «rescue bill» has created a reason for the bond market to react positively.

Learn about the major risks for the bond market in 2016; interest rate increases, high - yield bond volatility and a flatter yield curve may be issues.

Given the growing scarcity of available collateral among bond dealers, a collapse in repo liquidity, and increasing frequency of delivery failures, all of which is shorthand for a bond market that is becoming less liquid — it seems that QE has begun to create, rather than relieve, meaningful constraints.

We believe that overall demand for U.S. Treasury debt may decline, which is an important changing dynamic for the bond market.

The benefit for the bond market in the fiscal improvement is clearly illustrated by the fact that, in the current fiscal year, the Government's net call on the bond market for new funds has been only about $ 4 billion, compared with $ 14 billion two years earlier.

If you look at most charts for the bond market, there's this big discontinuity around November 2016 and what do you do?

To that end, I offer up my five predictions for the bond market in 2018:

They are positive for the bond market.

Wall Street believes that an Election Day outcome such as this would be a positive for the bond market which, for homeowners and home buyers, would lead to lower mortgage rates nationwide.

As the Fed tapers, many observers worry about the effect on the stock market, while others are worried about the risk of inflation or deflation and everybody is worried about the effect of higher interest rates on economic growth and for the bond market.

In a way it's difficult for the bond market to be overvalued in the same sense as the stock market can be.

David Kotok, chairman at Cumberland Advisors, discusses Puerto Rico defaulting on two bond payments and what it means for the bond market and the country.

Puerto Rico Default: What It Means for the Bond Market.

(The CNBC Kensho search used the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF as a proxy for the bond market.

Volatility in the Treasury market has sunk to a multidecade low, and that could have sweeping implications for the bond market this year.

Learn more about the positive outlook the BlackRock Total Return Fund portfolio management team has for bond markets in 2018.

What could the election results mean for bond markets...

That's another reason for the bond markets to panic — and is another reason to fear a bond market collapse.

The swap rate curve is an important interest - rate benchmark for the bond markets and is commonly used in Europe as the pricing reference for all European government bonds.

Not exact matches

«Finally, the increased role of bond and loan mutual funds, in conjunction with other factors, may have increased the risk that liquidity pressures could emerge in related markets if investor appetite for such assets wanes.»

«The worldwide market for green bonds in the last year has doubled, and it's now estimated to be more than $ 346 billion — those are U.S. dollars.»

Although last year was favorable for developing countries, investors remember the painful «taper tantrum» that ensued several years ago, when the Fed signaled it would begin pulling back on its massive bond purchases that kept rates low while injecting liquidity in markets.

For one thing, those 10 - year Canada bonds are yielding just 1.14 % and could lose value should interest rates rebound from their recent lows, as many market - watchers expect.

That is, we are taking positions that try to remove the direction of equity markets, and for the most part, the direction of bond markets from returns.

The answer is straightforward: The Bank of Japan can buy government bonds on the open market, paying for them with either currency or deposits at the Bank of Japan, what economists call high - powered money.

Bond prices were higher, stocks waffled and the dollar flip - flopped after the Fed's post-meeting statement failed to deliver the clarity markets were looking for on the course of rate hikes.

For the past seven years, low rates have made bonds relatively unattractive, and the stock market comparatively more attractive.

Bond investor Mary Ellen Stanek shares her market views in an exclusive interview for CNBC PRO with Mike Santoli.

(If I owned, for example, $ 1,000,000 of «AAA» - rated bonds from a large US company I could very easily sell them at market price right now.

In the short - term, however, this increased leverage may actually be bullish for junk bonds, corporate bonds, emerging market debt and mortgage - backed securities as it brings higher prices and lower yields, he said.

The sell off in the market for high yield debt, or junk bonds, is now hitting a type of structured bond that is similar to the the type that blew up in the financial crisis.

Although there may not be a bond bubble, with investors starved for yield, Gundlach predicts a potential bubble could form in credit risk as investors increase their leverage on riskier debt securities like junk bonds and emerging market debt.

Still, combine the indications of the short - term bond market with today's 5 % GDP news and you get the sense that stock traders betting on low interest rates for longer periods of time may soon have to bail out.

Powell's comment was pointed to by bond market strategists as a reason for a sudden pop in bond yields.

The bond offering was not only a big win for CVS, but also for a market that has had its worst start to the year in decades.

Markets set a positive stage for the Fed's potentially historic turn as U.S. stock futures rose ahead of the market open on Wednesday and bond markets and the dollar were Markets set a positive stage for the Fed's potentially historic turn as U.S. stock futures rose ahead of the market open on Wednesday and bond markets and the dollar were markets and the dollar were steady.

(Repeats to additional subscribers) NEW YORK, April 24 (Reuters)- The U.S. benchmark 10 - year Treasury yield topped 3 percent for the first time in more than four years on Tuesday, a milestone that reflects the durability of the U.S. economic expansion and stokes the view the three - decade - old bull market in bonds is numbered.