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Treasury Bonds Surge As Yields Fall
Thursday, May 6, 2010 - 4:56pm | 167Read More...U.S. Treasury bonds prices surged during trading today causing 10 year yields to fall to their lowest point since July, as problems in Greece increased after the government approved several austerity measures in exchange for financial aid from Germany, IMF and the rest of European Union. Yields...
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What is the Real Yield on Treasuries? (SHY, IEI, IEF)
Wednesday, September 16, 2009 - 9:29am | 211Read More...With many worried about hyper inflation due to endless bailouts and government spending why are treasury yields fairly low and have actually fallen over the past several months? Most likely the answer is in the short to intermediate term (less than 7 years or so) deflation is a bigger threat than...
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John Hussman of The Hussman Funds Sees Value in Short and Mid Term Treasuries (SHY, IEI, IEF, HSTRX)
Tuesday, September 8, 2009 - 2:35pm | 160Read More...John Hussman of The Hussman Funds sees value in short and medium term US Treasuries. Mr. Hussman states "Presently, the yield curve is so steep and incipient inflation pressures are sufficiently weak that Treasuries shorter than about 10-years in maturity have reasonable (though not unusually...
