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Recent Posts
- For the right investor, this week’s 30-year TIPS auction will have appeal
- 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
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An analysis by The Wall Street Journal identified multiple instances of companies raising prices on items ranging from jeans to spices this…
Just keep in mind that redeeming those early-year I Bonds will trigger a surprising tax hit. You may want to…
30 years is a long time, certainly beyond my imagined life expectancy. My impression is most of the people who…
I wouldn’t use the January number to extrapolate a year because non seasonally adjusted inflation runs higher at the beginning…
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Tag Archives: inflation
10-year TIPS auction gets real yield of 1.810%, an attractive result
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com That worked out well. A bit of jawboning earlier this week by Federal Reserve governor Christopher Waller sent both real and nominal yields climbing in the days ahead of the Treasury’s $18 billion offering of a … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Reserve, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
Tagged bonds, fixed-income, inflation, investing, personal-finance
22 Comments
I don’t like this new I Bond interest rate, should I sell and invest elsewhere?
May 1, 2015, update: Series I Savings Bonds to pay 0.0% interest; EE Bonds bump up to 0.3% The Treasury announced this week that it is dropping the fixed rate on Series I Savings Bonds to 0.0% for new bonds sold … Continue reading
Posted in Investing in TIPS
Tagged I BONDS, inflation, safe investments, SAVINGS BONDS, TIPS, Treasury, Treasury investments
11 Comments
Next up: 10-year TIPS will reopen in May 22, 2014, auction
The U.S. Treasury announced today it will reopen CUSIP 912828B25 in a May 22 auction, creating a 9-year, 8-month Treasury Inflation-Protected Security with a coupon rate of 0.625%. Noncompetitive bidding closes at noon and competitive bidding ends at 1 p.m. … Continue reading
Posted in Investing in TIPS
Tagged coupon rate, inflation, The Treasury, TIPS, Treasury Inflation-Protected Security
6 Comments
Looks like another good opportunity to build on the bond ladder portion of a portfolio for the middle-aged and trust…