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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields end virtually unchanged despite an active week
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U.S. Treasury yields ended the week only slightly lower, masking the week’s volatility. Rates rose early in the week, led by longer maturities, when the Federal Reserve (Fed) announced it would begin purchasing individual corporate bonds.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields rise on economic optimism
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Positive risk sentiment boosted U.S. Treasury yields last week, led by longer maturities. Investors appear optimistic over an expected rebound in growth as the economy reopens.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields mixed despite social turmoil
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Long U.S. Treasury yields ended last week slightly higher, while shorter-maturity yields finished lower.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields rise on hopes for a vaccine
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U.S. Treasury yields rose last week, as investors expressed optimism regarding developing a COVID-19 vaccine. The first 20-year Treasury issue in decades was auctioned on Wednesday, with the issue’s yield ending the week slightly lower.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields decline on dismal consumer data
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Treasury yields fell last week, led by longer maturities. Markets focused on a record monthly decline in core consumer goods, despite better-than-expected sentiment and manufacturing data.
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May 2020 Fixed Income Market Update
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In our view, the markets feel much healthier at the end of April than a month ago, but underappreciated in the improved sentiment is not only the scale of March policy action, but its continuation into April. Actions announced in April would ordinarily have remained in headlines and discussion for weeks, but the nearly half trillion dollar U.S. fiscal stimulus package has been treated almost as a footnote to its much larger cousin in March. Similarly, Fed and other central banks not only continued to implement the massive programs initiated last month, but significantly expanded on them.
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Municipal Yields Have Converged
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Over the past several weeks, yields between short- and intermediate-term Municipal Bonds have converged. This may be an opportunity for investors to significantly reduce interest rate risk while sacrificing minimal income since shorter-term bonds typically have less sensitivity to rates.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yield curve steepens amid risk-friendly sentiment
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10- and 30-year Treasury yields rose last week while shorter maturity rates fell, steepening the Treasury yield curve.
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Neither bulls nor bears last forever
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While bull markets don’t last forever, neither do bear markets. Since 1928, the strength and duration of S&P 500® bull markets has meaningfully outweighed that of bear markets.
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Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields plunge as coronavirus fears intensify
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U.S. Treasury yields fell to record lows last week, led by shorter maturities. The yield curve steepened as a result.