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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.

2014: The yield curve flattens, inflation sinks, and TIPS ETFs have a ‘blah’ year

Posted on July 7, 2021 by Tipswatch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com This article is the second in a series looking at how my three favorite bond funds — Vanguard Short-Term Inflation Protected (VTIP), Schwab U.S. TIPS (SCHP) and Vanguard’s Total Bond (BND) — performed after 2013, when … Continue reading →

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2013: A year of surging real and nominal yields

Posted on July 6, 2021 by Tipswatch

Let’s take a deep-dive look at my three favorite bond funds: VTIP, SCHP and BND By David Enna, Tipswatch.com A couple weeks ago I wrote an article on the possible path of TIPS and TIPS funds as the Federal Reserve … Continue reading →

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When the Fed begins tapering, what will happen to TIPS?

Posted on June 20, 2021 by Tipswatch

‘Talking about talking about’ is a signal that real yields could be rising By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Jerome Powell, chairman of the U.S. Federal Reserve, made some significant statements last week with the potential to shake up both the stock … Continue reading →

Posted in Inflation, Investing in TIPS | 9 Comments

5-year TIPS reopening gets a real yield of -1.416%, boosted by the Fed’s hints of tapering

Posted on June 17, 2021 by Tipswatch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s reopening auction of CUSIP 91282CCA7 — creating a 4-year, 10 month Treasury Inflation-Protected Security — went off today with a real yield to maturity of -1.416%, about 31 basis points higher than where this … Continue reading →

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Here’s why this week’s 5-year TIPS reopening auction makes investment sense

Posted on June 13, 2021 by Tipswatch

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Can anyone make the case that a 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security with a yield lagging inflation by 1.73% and an upfront premium cost of nearly 10% makes sense as an investment? Hey, I can. But that … Continue reading →

Posted in Bank CDs, I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS | 11 Comments