Blog/Bonds
Can Rates Rise with Deflation?
QUESTION: Hi Marty, How does the model’s call for deflation (earlier blog posts) fit in with the likely major cycle low in interest rates (per your recent [...]
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Beware of Bond Funds
QUESTION #1: Dear Mr Armstrong, you recently wrote that if you are in any bond fund, better get out. Do you also mean corporate short-term/medium-term bonds or are [...]
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ECB To Extend its Bond Buying Program into End of 2017
Mario Draghi, extended the European Central Bank (ECB) $ 1.74 trillion bond purchase program to support the economy by nine months to at least the end of December [...]
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US 30-Year Bonds — the Party Is Over
On July 11, 2016, the 30-year bond peaked on the nearest futures at 177110. The 30-year Treasury yield fell to 2.088%, and on that day, the Swiss government [...]
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Private Blog for Month-End Closing
Private Blog Update for Bonds – Dow – [...]
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Peak in Bonds/Low in Interest Rates – Is it Time Yet?
If there was ever any question that this is a bond bubble with a 5,000-year low in interest rates, the final bit of insanity just took place. Italy managed to sell [...]
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Gold – Dollar – Bonds
QUESTION: Hi, I have two questions: a) do you believe US dollar has been kept artificially lower than it should be (or at least in long range trading range) by at [...]
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US Debt: Who is Really Selling & Who is Buying?
QUESTION: Marty; Since you wrote that central banks have been net sellers of US Treasuries for the first six months to support their currencies, others are jumping [...]
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Central Bank Intervention Against the Dollar
In the first six months of the year, the raw data has shown that several central banks have been selling US government bonds in an attempt to support their [...]
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Global Debt with Negative Rates Reaches $12 Trillion
QUESTION: Dear Mr. Armstrong, I am really confused regarding long-term interest rates – I had thought they were controlled by the markets – but it seems [...]
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