News Analysis The U.S. treasury bond market has tumbled this year. That’s no surprise. Between the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes and quantitative tightening, 10-year treasury yields have increased from 1.6 percent to more than 4.0 percent year to date (bond yields have an inverse relationship with bond prices). But this doesn’t feel like a…

Francis Hunt is a chartered market analyst with over 30 years of successful trading experience. He is an expert on global markets. Hunt sees major trouble ahead as inflation destroys the value of government bonds. He says we’re already seeing this play out in Britain and Japan, and that it’s only a matter of time…

Francis Hunt is a chartered market analyst with over 30 years of successful trading experience. He is an expert on global markets. Hunt sees major trouble ahead as inflation destroys the value of government bonds. He says we’re already seeing this play out in Britain and Japan, and that it’s only a matter of time…

Francis Hunt is a chartered market analyst with over 30 years of successful trading experience. He is an expert on global markets. Hunt sees major trouble ahead as inflation destroys the value of government bonds. He says we’re already seeing this play out in Britain and Japan, and that it’s only a matter of time…

It has been a year to forget for global financial markets, and there is still another quarter to go in 2022. While stocks have captured most of the selloff attention this year, even safe-haven assets have plummeted, including the international bond market, which has experienced the worst performance in several decades. According to Bank of…

If the Federal Reserve shies away from its current policy of raising rates and tightening the money supply, it wouldn’t alleviate pressures in the market, at least not for long, according to investment analyst Michael Lebowitz. Instead, it may crush the economy. The Fed started to tighten the credit spigots earlier this year in order…

Commentary Large net capital flows out of China have officially become a trend as Chinese fixed-income securities have lost their luster to foreign investors. Capital drawdowns out of China’s interbank bond market exacerbated and continued for the third straight month in April. Most experts blame the shift on a declining yuan currency and lower yield…

Commentary The announcement of a balance sheet taper sent equity buyers into overdrive as they aggressively bought every dip in stocks regardless of the news flow. The relentless bid has propelled stocks to new all-time highs without any regard to the next round of tapering from the Federal Reserve coming mid-January. While the Fed has…

A key measure of the bond market’s expectations for upward price pressures over the next five years, known as the five-year breakeven inflation rate, surged to an all-time high of 3.113 percent on Nov. 10, shortly after government data was released showing consumer price inflation rising at its fastest annual rate in nearly 31 years. The…