Mortgage rates are improving a little
today as government bond yields slide lower.
Not exact matches
The conservative investments, such
as government bonds, favoured by baby boomers and retirees are producing virtually nothing,
as today's low rates demolish returns.
«I expect protracted negotiations
as the international organizations will ask for more than amending the central bank law,» Daniel Bebesy, who helps oversee $ 1.5 billion mostly in Hungarian
government bonds at Budapest Fund Management, said by phone
today.
Michael Hasenstab:
As we look toward the end of the year, we have to question whether the type of US
government bond yields we have
today make sense given rising inflation and the resiliency we've seen in the US economy.
More than 70 % of the
bonds in developed - market
government bond indexes
today have yields of 1 % or lower,
as the chart below shows.
As I write
today's tip, the ten year
government Treasury
bond sits at 2.69 %.
Today's negative real rates incent us to favor real capital, which provides positive long - term real expected returns,
as a long - term store of value over cash and
government bonds, which currently pay negative real rates.
Today there are two more signs of extreme mania ------ a brokerage firm calculation that there are now $ 5.3 trillion of
government bonds trading at negative yields and the cross-over of eurolibor into the nether world of negative yields,
as well.
As I mentioned earlier, RRBs yield about 0.85 %
today, while regular
government bonds with comparable maturities yield roughly 2.9 %.