Bonds

The Federal Reserve leadership transition is scheduled to occur during a turbulent time. Rate-cut expectations have been slashed to zero, private-sector job growth is effectively zero, and trillions of dollars in debt need to be refinanced. Each of these variables alone would be manageable....

Top cryptocurrency analyst Willy Woo took to X on Tuesday to express his thoughts on how the economy functions as an engine, transforming raw materials and energy into goods and services. He also shared his perspective on the interplay between thermodynamics, physics, and economics, and its...

The United States is approaching a milestone that feels like a breaking point. The national debt has passed $39 trillion, and as it approaches the big 40, the math is becoming impossible to ignore. Billionaire investor Jeffrey Gundlach—often dubbed "The Bond King"—believes the real issue isn't just...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, the economic data and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. retail and food services sales for February 2026 rose by 0.6% to $738.4 billion, slightly rebounding from a revised 0.1% dip in January. When excluding...

While foreign central banks have rapidly liquidated $82 billion in U.S. Treasuries amid the Middle East conflict, according to a FT report, top financial experts are dismissing fears of a market collapse. A ‘Feared’ Defense Against Bond Vigilantes While the sudden offloading of U.S....

Vanguard has rolled out a new suite of target maturity bond ETFs aimed at investors looking for more precision in fixed-income allocation. • Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF shares are showing limited movement. Where are BND shares going? The launch of the Vanguard BondBuilder Target Maturity...

The AI boom is no longer just a spending story. It's becoming a debt story — and Wall Street is starting to pay attention. Over the past six months, Big Tech's biggest names — Meta Platforms, Inc. (NASDAQ:META), Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN), Alphabet Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOGL) (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Oracle...

While investors fixate on the Middle East, Professor Steve Hanke says the more dangerous story may be playing out at home. The Johns Hopkins economist argues that the war around Iran and the Strait of Hormuz is not just a geopolitical shock. It is a stress test for a US balance sheet he believes is...

Vanguard has rolled out a new suite of Target Maturity Corporate Bond ETFs, aimed to give fixed-income investors more precision in how they manage duration, income and risk. • Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF stock is holding steady today. Where is VCSH stock headed? Branded as...

The Trump administration may be forced to temper the Iran conflict as borrowing costs surge, with the 10-year Treasury yield up 45 basis points since late February. The Bond Market Pressure Point Gold advocate Peter Schiff on Monday questioned why Trump dramatically escalated the war Saturday only...

Vanguard is entering the space with a planned launch of its US High-Yield Corporate Bond Index ETF (VCHY), according to a recent SEC filing. Expected to debut in June, the fund will track Bloomberg's US High Yield $250MM 2% Issuer Capped Index, marking a notable expansion of the firm's fixed-income...

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE:BLK) is systematically dumping long-duration U.S. government bonds, executing a massive structural shift into real assets that has occurred exactly three times in the last 50 years, according to an expert. The End Of Traditional 60/40 Portfolio The world's largest asset...

It wasn't the exodus of capital, but the speed at which sentiment reversed that startled the market. Billions of dollars are now leaving a $1.8 trillion industry that, until recently, looked like a dependable engine of steady returns. At the center of the turmoil sits the contradiction embedded in...

For decades, investors have relied on a simple market correlation. When stock prices fall, government bond prices rise. The premise was the backbone of the classic 60-40 balanced portfolio. But BlackRock is now warning that this relationship is breaking down—and the reason lies in a mix of...

(Editor’s note: The future prices of benchmark tracking ETFs, the lede, the economic data, and the headline were updated in the story.) U.S. stock futures rose on Monday following Friday’s lower close. Futures of the major benchmark indices were higher. Manufacturing activity in New...