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Recent Posts
- January’s mild inflation report comes with ‘qualifications’
- Inflation slowed in January, with annual rate falling to 2.4%
- My schedule … and what’s coming next
- TreasuryDirect tax forms: How to find the 1099s, decipher them
- I Bond buying guide for 2026: Wait it out
- In a volatile week, auction of new 10-year TIPS gets a real yield of 1.940%, a nice result for investors
- Is this week’s new 10-year TIPS worth targeting?
- U.S. inflation held steady in December; annual rate closes at 2.7%
- The Savings Bond Calculator has a problem
- A 10-year TIPS is maturing Jan. 15. How did it do as an investment?
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- Bloomberg: Current yields
- Chart: 10-year inflation breakeven rate
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- Chart: 5-year TIPS inflation breakeven rates
- Chart: 5-year TIPS yields
- Historical Auction Query
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- WSJ: Current TIPS values
Archives
My buying decision would be more based on the likely fixed rate update instead of the variable rate. If the…
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Categories
Category Archives: I Bond
I Bonds: Let’s handicap the May fixed-rate reset
Everything you are about to read is based on facts … and plain old guesswork. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com Update, April 28, 2023: Treasury raises I Bond’s fixed rate to 0.9%; new composite rate is 4.30% Note, March 13: It … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Savings Bond, TreasuryDirect
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January Inflation: What It Means for Your Savings
Do AI innovations signal the end to human journalism? Let’s take a look. And now, for something completely different on a Saturday morning, I asked Bing.com’s new ChatGPT-powered software to write an article on January inflation, in the style of … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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January inflation came in higher than expected, rising 0.5% to an annual rate of 6.4%
Non-seasonally adjusted inflation rose 0.8%, giving a boost to investors in TIPS and I Bonds. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The January inflation report, just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, showed a return to higher-than-expected U.S. price increases, after … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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Monthly U.S. inflation for 2022 just got revised … a bit
This has no effect on annual inflation or on earnings for TIPS and I Bonds. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com While I was searching Friday for consensus estimates on the January inflation report, to be released Tuesday, I noticed something odd. … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
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Is the I Bond’s variable rate heading to zero? Maybe not.
Historical evidence clearly shows non-seasonal inflation lags from October to December, picks up from January to March. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The one really big thing I have learned while writing about inflation and inflation protection over the last 12 … Continue reading
Posted in I Bond, Inflation, Savings Bond
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I will be posting an analysis of the upcoming 30-year TIPS auction on Monday morning, EST. This is a delay…