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- Could Tipswatch.com be staffed by AI agents?
- Economist Claudia Sahm: U.S. economic statistics are not being manipulated
- 30-year TIPS auction gets real yield of 2.473%, second highest in 16 years
- 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
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Tag Archives: Treasury investments
Real yields continue their wild ride
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com If you follow me on Twitter (yes, I still call it Twitter), you might have seen a very recent (June 5) post observing that real yields appeared to be heading back below 2.0%, breaking a two-month … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Reserve, Inflation, Investing in TIPS
Tagged bonds, economy, inflation, investing, personal-finance, Treasury investments
23 Comments
AllianceBernstein suggests a 60/30/10 portfolio to protect against inflation
Investment firm sees ‘higher and spikier’ inflation looming. By David Enna, Tipswatch.com AllianceBernstein, a global investment firm with about $725 billion in assets under management, is now advising its clients to replace the traditional 60% stocks / 40% bonds portfolio … Continue reading
Posted in Cash alternatives, Investing in TIPS, Retirement
Tagged bonds, economy, interest-rates, investing, personal-finance, Treasury investments
42 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
Why Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities?
A little story. Back in 1999 I was at a cocktail party, and of course, the conversation drifted toward the red-hot stock market, as it always did in 1999. What were you buying? Cisco? AOL? Something-or-other.com? I said, “I’ve been … Continue reading
I do hear from people wanting to hold a 30-year TIPS in a taxable account because they have no access…