Author Archives: Tipswatch

After a month of very sharp rises in the yield on Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, the trend continued Monday, with the yield on the benchmark 10-year TIPS rising to 0.11%, plus inflation, marking two trading days in a row the yield … Continue reading →

I was on vacation and away from a computer (an iPad is NOT a computer) the last two weeks, and blog-writing was impossible. Enjoy the glories of Vancouver Island, B.C., or struggle with writing a blog on an iPad? Easy … Continue reading →

The Treasury just announced that today’s auction of a 9-year, 8-month Treasury Inflation-Protected Security resulted in a yield of -0.225%, the highest yield on a 10-year TIPS in more than a year. This was a bit better than the -0.244% … Continue reading →

I am going to say yes on this auction, and that is significant: It will be the first TIPS I will have bought at auction since June 2011, a 30-year TIPS with a yield of 1.774%. I won’t be going … Continue reading →

Is this what deflation looks like? At least for spring 2013, yes. The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced today that ‘headline’ inflation – known technically as the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) – decreased 0.4% in April … Continue reading →