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About Tipswatch

Author of Tipswatch.com blog, David Enna is a long-time journalist based in Charlotte, N.C. A past winner of two Society of American Business Editors and Writers awards, he has written on real estate and home finance, and was a founding editor of The Charlotte Observer's website.

Food, gas costs push up U.S. inflation

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Tipswatch

The U.S. Labor Department reported today that the Consumer Price Index rose 0.3% in March, mostly because of higher food and gas prices. In 12 months that ended in February, prices rose 2.7 percent. That’s below last year’s peak year-over-year … Continue reading →

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Let’s be negative: Making the case for a 5-year TIPS

Posted on April 3, 2012 by Tipswatch

The Treasury on April 19 will auction a new issue 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security, and it is likely to have a deeply negative base interest rate. I am going to try my best to explain why anyone would buy this … Continue reading →

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Stocks versus TIPS: What’s next for the ‘prudent investor’?

Posted on April 1, 2012 by Tipswatch

Are Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities now an unsafe or unwise investment? Is the Treasury market at the start of a long bear market? Will stocks greatly outperform bonds over the next 10 years? Burton Malkiel, author of ‘A Random Walk Down … Continue reading →

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10-year TIPS reissue auctions at -0.089%, an all-time low

Posted on March 22, 2012 by Tipswatch

The Treasury just posted the results for CUSIP 912828SA9, a 9-year, 10-month reissue. The previous low for any 10-year TIPS issue or reissue was this same CUSIP 912828SA9, first issued on Jan. 19. It went off two months ago at … Continue reading →

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Despite Treasury slump, will 10-year TIPS auction at all-time low yield?

Posted on March 21, 2012 by Tipswatch

It’s been an interesting month for Treasuries – just read the reports, all over the Web, about the end of the Treasury bull market, the coming Treasury bear market, steeply rising interest rates, and on and on. But if you … Continue reading →

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