Bonds Analysis & Opinion

Investors headed for the hills Monday, dumping stocks and pouring into government bonds, pushing down yields on benchmarks to levels not seen in months. Are they on to something?Commentators...

Analysts are going through contortions to explain how Treasury yields plunged last week, puncturing all the scenarios of robust economic growth, high inflation—and rising yields.Many...

Investors in U.S. Treasuries are shrugging off inflation worries and keeping yields well-contained. They seem to accept the argument from Federal Reserve policymakers that the recent increase in...

Investors left no doubt in anyone’s mind that they like bonds from the European Union as they ordered €142 billion of the first bonds in the pandemic recovery program, prompting the banks...

Greece joined the club of eurozone countries sporting negative bond yields as its five-year bond dipped below zero on Monday. It is hardly an exclusive club—Italy is now the only eurozone...

The European Central Bank seems to be taking its cues from the Federal Reserve, so the ECB governing council’s decision last week to keep its monetary policy accommodative is a good hint about...

Bond investors have been fixated on the amount of the Federal Reserve’s asset purchases and the possible impact of the Fed reducing those purchases, removing a price support and perhaps causing...

U.S. Treasuries are relatively calm these days, but eurozone government bonds remain volatile. After the yield on the benchmark 10-year French bond climbed into positive territory, investors are...

German media started to speculate last week that the negative-interest phase in government bonds might be reaching an end as optimism about vaccines and an economic rebound have prompted investors to...

U.S. Treasuries appear to be treading water. That's keeping yields on the 10-year benchmark at about 1.60% despite the usual fluctuations.Investors have priced in robust economic news, but a bullish...

Yields on the benchmark 10-year Treasury are in a holding pattern after receding from highs last month as investors await the first clue as to how fast the U.S. economy is growing when GDP for the...

The sanctions imposed by the U.S. against Russia last week included barring American financial institutions from buying ruble-denominated debt at auction, and Russian sovereign bond yields accordingly...

Everyone agrees investors will be paying close attention to the March consumer price index release from the U.S. Labor Department today [Tuesday]. What analysts don’t agree on—because they...

Investors paused in driving US Treasury yields higher as repeated remarks by Federal Reserve policymakers pushed analysts to suggest bets on an early rate increase were overdone.Of course, early is a...