Interest Rates Archive
Which Way Interest Rates?
April 12, 2010 · Category: Interest Rates, Macro Economics
A couple of important stories on interest rates this weekend in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times.
The Wall Street Journal described the different forecasts for the year-end 10 year treaury yield by Morgan ...
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Technical Watch: Dow 11,000, 10 Year Treasury 4%
Source: BeSpoke Investment Group
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Rising Rates - 10 Year Approaching 4%
One of the important stories last week was the notable rise in interest rates. The cause was weak treasury auctions on Wednesday and Thursday when the Treasury sold $42 billion of 5 year notes and ...
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Doug Casey: Go Short Interest Rates
June 24, 2009 · Category: Inflation, Interest Rates
People who short interest rates - in other words, people who bet they are going much higher in the coming years - are going to make a fortune. I think interest rates will go back ...
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WSJ Weighs In On Rising Rates
Mortgage rates at these levels will hobble the [housing] recovery, and it was just the beginning of the recovery.
- Kenneth Rosen (subscription required), Chairman, Fisher Center for Real Estate and Urban Economics, University of California, Berkeley.
The ...
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Could Rising Rates Kill The Rally?
June 10, 2009 · Category: Interest Rates, Market Commentary
Is the rally over, killed by higher rates? Not clear, but stocks are signaling that higher rates are going to be a major headwind.
- "Stocks Signal Worries Over Higher Interest Rates", Bob Pisani, Trader Talk, ...
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The End of the Treasury Bubble?
January 29, 2009 · Category: Bonds, Interest Rates
At the beginning of the month Barron's ran a cover story calling a bubble in treasuries: "Get Out Now" (subscription required - e-mail me if you want a link).
A month earlier, the fabulous Jim Grant wrote ...
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My, My How Quickly Things Change On Wall Street - 10 Year Treasury Closes Below 5%; Ken Fisher Says: Watch Credit Spreads
A month ago the big story was rising interest rates. Everybody was talking about how the economy was holding up while inflation was still a problem and so, far from cutting rates later this year, ...
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Making Sense of the Two Week Spike In Interest Rates
June 14, 2007 · Category: Bonds, Interest Rates
This morning Barry Ritholtz put up a post on saying that bonds are oversold on sentiment and technicals if not valuation.
In that post, he links to an article by Barron's interest rate columnist Randall Forsyth, ...
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One Important Reason For Rising Interest Rates: Rising Rates Around The World
June 11, 2007 · Category: Interest Rates
A couple weeks ago David Gaffen at the WSJ's MarketBeat blog had a post everyone should read on five reasons for rising interest rates: (1) Higher Yields Around the Globe (2) Diminished Expectations for a ...
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