Author Archives: Tipswatch

Since May 1 of this year, we have seen a pretty-much unprecedented rise in Treasury yields, almost blindingly quick as the Federal Reserve began to slowly back away (verbally, not in action) from its bond-buying stimulus program. On May 1, … Continue reading →

The U.S. Treasury just announced that its reissue of a 4-year, 8-month TIPS auctioned with a yield to maturity of   -0.127%, the highest yield for any 4- or 5-year TIPS issued in more than three years. Read the announcement. … Continue reading →

It was quite an auction-eve day in the market yesterday, with Federal Reserve minutes released at 2 p.m., setting both the stock and bond markets into a tizzy. We are setting up for an interesting Treasury auction today for a … Continue reading →

Interest rates fluctuate, day by day, hour by hour. That fact makes predicting the future auction yield of a Treasury Inflation-Protected Security pretty difficult, even impossible. But you can guess, and sometimes you can get fairly close, if you watch … Continue reading →

‘Headline’ inflation, technically called the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), increased 0.2% in July on a seasonally adjusted basis, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the last 12 months, CPI-U has increased 2.0%. For … Continue reading →