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The Fed and Bond Yields

By Spencer Yesterday’s bond market reaction to the Fed’s policy announcement was interesting….

synthetic bonds

…the jump, I explain why I find these questions challenging 1) If I want to be long IBM bonds and Own Treasury bonds I can make a synthetic IBM bond

Bond Market Long Wave

Oldvet– very good on the long run bond market. Here is another chart to put that trend in perspective. I suspect that to get back to the solid trend line…

Bond Yields In the wake of the Fed’s meeting and press release yesterday, it’s time to check in with the bond market. The Fed’s announcement apparently came as no major…

Exuberance in the Bond Market Check out what’s happened to the yield on the 10 year treasury note in recent days: Ever since last Friday’s weaker-than-expected employment report, the bond

MMT II

…are described as bond financed deficit spending combined with open market operations. In MMT deficit spending means monetized deficit spending and bond financed deficit spending is described as monetized deficit…

Corporate Bond Spreads and the Pandemic

…this first chart fails to distinguish between credit spreads on corporate bonds with high credit ratings versus credit spreads on corporate bonds with lower credit ratings. Except the authors present…