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Interest Rates
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One Reason Rates are Likely to Remain Low for Long
While Rick Rieder believes that the Federal Reserve (Fed) is likely to begin raising rates sooner than the…
Life Insurers Love Higher Rates
by John Murphy, Stockcharts.com Blog Financial stocks are starting to show upside leadership at the same time that…
Not All That it Seems
by Lance Roberts of STA Wealth Management, Once again the world awaits the Janet Yellen’s post-FOMC meeting press…
Has the Market Overpriced Stocks and Long Bonds?
by Econbrowser As the U.S. economy returns to healthier growth, many of us expected long-term interest rates to…
Undermining the Integrity of Financial Markets
Undermining the Integrity of Financial Markets by Guy Haselmann, Director, Capital Markets Strategy, Scotiabank GBM Introduction Financial markets…
How to Position Your Portfolio as Rates Start to Rise
With the Fed likely to begin raising rates in the first half of 2015, you may be wondering…
Looking Beyond Interest Rate Risk in Bonds
by Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense Interest rate risk has been THE big worry for bond investors…
Expect Higher Treasury Yields in Second Half
by Sober Look While many investors refuse to accept this fact, we are clearly marching toward higher treasury…
Rising Rates: The Good, the Bad…No Ugly
by Douglas J. Peebles, AllianceBernstein The US Fed has said it will almost certainly boost short-term interest…
Getting Closer: Fed Continues its Tapering & Moving Toward Rate Hikes
Getting Closer: Fed Continues its Tapering & Moving Toward Rate Hikes by Liz Ann Sonders July 30, 2014…
Why Treasury Yields Can't Catch a Bid
by James Picerno, Capital Spectator Some analysts are again projecting that the age of higher interest rates has…
Who's Afraid of Low, Low Rates?
by James T. Tierney, Jr., AllianceBernstein Falling yields on Treasuries are often seen as a signal of a…
The Chase for Yield
by Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense “People become risk-seeking when all their options are bad.” –…
We Shouldn't Be Shocked By This New Proposal... But We Are
by Simon Black of Sovereign Man blog, Prof. Ken Rogoff’s book ‘This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of…
Interest Rate Scenarios and Stock Market Performance
by Ben Carlson, A Wealth of Common Sense “In the case of equities or real estate or farms…
