finance | Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities

Tag Archives: finance

30-year TIPS auction gets real yield of 2.403%, highest in 23 years

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The market for Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities made a bit of history today, with the auction of $9 billion in a new 30-year TIPS getting a real yield of 2.403%, the highest for this term since October … Continue reading →

January’s inflation report was a bit of a disaster

Posted on February 12, 2025 by Tipswatch

All-items and core inflation both rose much higher than expectations. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The January inflation report, just released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, demonstrated that U.S. inflation is far from tamed. This was not good news. There … Continue reading →

Posted in Federal Reserve, I Bond, Inflation, Investing in TIPS, Savings Bond | Tagged economy, finance, inflation, interest-rates, investing | 38 Comments

New 10-year TIPS gets real yield of 2.243%, highest for this term in 16 years

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The Treasury’s auction of $20 billion in a new 10-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security — CUSIP 91282CML2 — generated a real yield to maturity of 2.243%, the highest for this term at auction since January 2009. The … Continue reading →

TreasuryDirect is sending out a survey on the savings bond gift-box. Here are the details.

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com As I have noted many times in recent months, I believe there are changes coming in TreasuryDirect’s “gift box” program, which creates a loophole for buying I Bonds beyond the $10,000 per person annual limit for … Continue reading →

2024: An inflation-watcher’s year in review

By David Enna, Tipswatch.com This year 2024 brought many surprises. For example: The year 2025 is bringing uncertainty. I would not be surprised to see a fairly large sell-off in stock prices early in the year, with investors eager to … Continue reading →