Sentences with phrase «long bonds rallied»

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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.

U.S. long - term rates would spike, while investors in Canada would rush to the domestic fixed - income market, setting off a bond rally that would push Canadian yields down «substantially,» said Burleton.

Mad Money host Jim Cramer goes off the charts with the help of Carly Garner of DeCarley Trading, who expects the long rally in bond prices to soon end.

The bond market rally has endured for so long that many credit investors have become complacent.

Here's the upshot: After an initial multiyear recovery in stock and bond prices after a crisis (the rally we saw through last year) comes a long stretch of lousy returns.

Although this rally can definitely continue over the short - term, I think over the long - term intermediate bonds are probably a better bet for a lower risk portion of the portfolio.

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.

We have benefited from this year's rally in stocks and bonds (our Multi Asset Risk Strategy ETF Model Portfolio has a Sharpe ratio of over 3 this year — and that's with no leverage), but we are managing our risk by incorporating asset classes such as gold through the iShares Gold Trust (IAU); liquid alternatives through the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF (QAI), long - dated Treasuries through the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT)-- each of which diversify our portfolio risk and carry well within an ETF portfolio construct.

But you wouldn't know it from the recent action of the long - term treasury bond which rallied 8 % in 3 months since bottoming in March.

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.

The size of the package, the open - ended nature of the commitment and the willingness to purchase longer dated bonds all came as positive surprises to investors, driving this past week's strong equity rally.

Rates subsequently bear steepened as long - end led the weakness, but renewed decline in risk sentiment managed to create a soft ceiling for bond yields, and the rates market rallied into the close.

He noted that the fact the 10 Vanguard ETFs with capital gains distributions all have long - term gains is a clear indication that the challenge of managing a bond portfolio when fixed - income markets are rallying is not just confined to 2011.

Treasury 30 - year bonds advanced after biggest quarterly rally since the depths of the financial crisis in 2008 as the Federal Reserve prepared to buy longer - term debt under the program known as Operation Twist.

For what it is worth, there was a humongous rally in long bonds as people sought safety.

With this most recent rally, you would have gained much more had I invested you exclusively in very long term bonds — long term U.S. bond funds are up about 13 % YTD!

Cleary, equity based alternative strategies, such as long / short equity, struggled to keep up with the strong rally in March, however, nontraditional bond funds performed well relative to their long - only counterpart (Intermediate Term Bonds).

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 %.

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

Pimco Total Return, managed by Chief Investment Officers Scott Mather, Mark Kiesel, and Mihir Worah since Gross's departure, trailed a majority of peers for the second straight year in 2014 after missing a rally in longer - term bonds and betting that inflation would rise.

(Bloomberg)-- Pimco's biggest mutual fund trailed a majority of peers for the second straight year after missing a rally in longer - term bonds and betting incorrectly that inflation would rise.

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.

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.