Treasuries Pain Can Get Much Worse, Term Premium Dynamics Show By Garfield Reynolds, Bloomberg Markets Live reporter and strategist Treasuries’ recent slump owed plenty to the return of the so-called term premium as investors became more concerned about the risks of holding longer-dated debt. Even as US bonds get some help from geopolitical uncertainty, there’s […]
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Hedge Funds Are Taking Over the $25 Trillion U.S. Treasuries Market
Hedge Funds Are Taking Over the $25 Trillion U.S. Treasuries Market Sept. 27, 2023, (EIRNS)—The $25 trillion market in U.S. Treasury bonds is the largest market of any kind in the world today, and it is the pace-setter for all financial instruments throughout the trans-Atlantic financial system. An article in the Sept. 26 Financial Times […]
TreasuryDirect site where investors go to purchase U.S. Treasuries goes OFFLINE due to “technical problems”
(NaturalNews) For much of the day on Tuesday following the Labor Day weekend, the TreasuryDirect.gov platform for purchasing and redeeming United States savings… Source Views: 0
China, Holding Treasuries, Keeps ‘Nuclear Option’ in U.S. Trade War
China, Holding Treasuries, Keeps ‘Nuclear Option’ in U.S. Trade War April 4th, 2018 Via: Reuters: It took China just 11 hours to retaliate against the United States for proposing tariffs on some 1,300 Chinese products, but Chinese officials are holding back on taking aim […]
China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries
China Weighs Slowing or Halting Purchases of U.S. Treasuries January 10th, 2018 Via: Bloomberg: China added to bond investors’ jitters on Wednesday as traders braced for what they feared could be the end of a three-decade bull market. Senior government officials in Beijing reviewing […]
De Niro Regrets ‘Vaxxed’ Getting Pulled, Says People Must See It
Robert De Niro and his wife Jane Rosenthal were recently on the Today Show to talk about the 15th anniversary of the Tribeca Film Festival, and the conversation quickly turned to the controversy surrounding Vaxxed. De Niro was adamant that he made the right choice originally to air the anti-vaccine documentary and regretted the organizers’ […]
Global Debt Crisis: Investing in “Toxic Waste Treasuries” or Gold and Silver?
Bob ChapmanInternational Forecaster October 5, 2011 Why would, almost non-yielding Treasuries, be a safe haven, when the government is broke? We would guess that, when a US dollar collapse comes, that owners of such bonds, notes and bills would like to lose equally what everyone else holding these debt instruments loses. We call it a […]
Treasuries Fall on Speculation G-20 Will Act
Cordell Eddings Bloomberg September 23, 2011 Treasuries declined, pushing yields on benchmark 10-year notes up from a record low, on speculation Group of 20 leaders will act to prevent the European debt crisis from worsening. Thirty-year bonds pared their biggest weekly gains in almost three years as global equity markets recovered. Investors have sought […]