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- Academic study: I Bonds out-perform high-yield savings accounts
- TIPS values exist in a multiverse: What’s the correct reality?
- iShares target-date TIPS ETFs are growing in appeal … and deserve a look
- 10-year TIPS auction gets real yield of 2.169% to soft demand
- This week’s 10-year TIPS auction is going to get interesting
- Energy shock sends U.S. inflation to a three-year high
- I filled out the top end of my TIPS ladder last week
- Treasury holds I Bond fixed rate at 0.90%; composite rate rises to 4.26%
- TreasuryDirect, ditch the ‘gift box’ and raise the I Bond purchase cap
- 5-year TIPS auction gets a real yield of 1.367%
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- WSJ: Current TIPS values
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This was my query to Claude: "How do returns of Series I savings bonds compare with HYSAs over the last…
The unique thing (and the great contradiction logically) about I Bonds is that they are most appropriate as an investment…
I hear statistics like this all the time but most of the people I know are living fairly comfortably. The…
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Category Archives: Investing in TIPS
Not negative: I Bond variable interest rate will reset to 0.16% on May 1
The U.S. inflation report for March had non-seasonally adjusted inflation rising 0.43%, enough to overwrite 5 months of deflation for the September 2015 to March 2016 adjustment period. Inflation ended up rising 0.08% in that six-month period, meaning the Treasury … Continue reading
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On SeekingAlpha.com: Inflation protection is getting more expensive – is it worth it?
I wrote this as a SeekingAlpha.com exclusive … Why? It’s not a mystery. They pay me. Here’s a summary: In 2016, TIPS yields have fallen much more sharply than the overall Treasury market. The five-year TIPS yield has fallen into … Continue reading
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10-year TIPS reopening auctions with a yield of 0.315%
A 10-year TIPS reopened today at auction with a yield to maturity of 0.315%, 41 basis points below the yield of this TIPS at the creation auction – just two months ago on Jan. 21. This is CUSIP 912828N71, a … Continue reading
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Checking in on today’s 10-year TIPS reopening
I could say it’s been a weird week for Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, but honestly, every week is a weird week for TIPS. The Treasury today will reopen CUSIP 912828N71, a 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security that first auctioned on Jan. 21 … Continue reading
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February inflation report: Looks like deflation, acts like inflation
The official inflation report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics says that inflation fell 0.2% in February, but that decline was determined by a whopping 13% drop in gasoline prices, which began rising in March. Every other price category showed … Continue reading
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That was my first thought. Longterm, of course I-Bonds would be much better than a high-yield savings account, especially with…