{"id":119990,"date":"2009-12-31T11:34:51","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mortgagenewsclips.com\/2009\/12\/31\/yield-curve-and-interest-rates-9-posts\/"},"modified":"2009-12-31T11:34:51","modified_gmt":"2009-12-31T16:34:51","slug":"yield-curve-and-interest-rates-%e2%80%93-9-posts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/119990","title":{"rendered":"Yield Curve and Interest Rates \u2013 9 posts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Rising Interest Rates<\/strong> – In a debt burdened economy like that of the United States, interest rates are the lifeblood. In a previous article, I suggested selling call options on TLT (long treasury ETF) under the theory that interest rates probably could not go much lower and it has turned out to be a great trade.  Now the 30 year government bond is hitting the 4.6% level, only 20 bps or .2% away from a 2 year high of 4.8%<\/strong> … – Surly Trader<\/a>
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Chart du Jour: Keep an eye on the yield curve<\/strong> – Posted by Prieur du Plessis – … Put simply, on Tuesday the gap between 10- and 2-year US government bond yields hit its widest spread ever<\/strong> \u2013 286 basis points, beating last week\u2019s 276 basis points and the previous record set in August 2003 of 274 basis points. … – Investment
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The Yield Curve Signals Bigger Growth<\/strong> – By Larry Kudlow – What’s a yield curve and why is it so important? … So there could be a mini boom next year, with real GDP growing at 4 to 5 percent, perhaps with a 6 percent quarter in there someplace. And the unemployment rate is likely to come down,<\/strong> perhaps moving into the 8 percent zone from today’s 10 percent. … – Real Clear Markets<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Billionaire Paulson Leads Fund Managers Betting on the Yield Curve<\/strong> – John Paulson and Julian Robertson are among managers looking to capitalize on growing inflation and higher yields.<\/strong>  According to a report by the Financial Times, John Paulson is among those looking to gain from the inverse relationship of falling bond prices and rising yields. – Yahoo Finance<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Grants Interest Rate Observer<\/strong><\/a> – free Winter Break Issue 33 pages<\/strong> – James Grant is always a good read. 
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Morgan Stanley: Interest Rates Set To Soar 40% As Bond Vigilantes Make Geithner And Obama Pay For Their Mess<\/strong> –  Get ready for a wild ride on the long end of the curve, as the bondvigilantes go to work making Barack Obama and Tim Geithner pay for the bailout… Bloomberg: Yields on benchmark 10-year notes will climb about 40 percent to 5.5 percent, the biggest annual increase since 1999, according to David Greenlaw<\/strong>, chief fixed-income economist at Morgan Stanley in New York. The surge will push interest rates on 30-year fixed mortgages to 7.5 percent to 8 percent, almost the highest in a decade, Greenlaw said. … – Before It’s News<\/a> <\/p>\n

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Bonds: Strategies for 2010 –<\/strong> By David Bogoslaw – Veteran bond-fund manager Bill Larkin tells Bloomberg BusinessWeek what fixed-income investors can do to boost returns\u2014and protect their portfolios from inflation<\/strong> – BusinessWeek<\/a> <\/p>\n

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30-year fixed mortgage rate rises above 5% –<\/strong> By Martin Zimmerman – LA Times Business<\/a> – <\/p>\n

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A Savvy Bond Man Bets Big on Inflation – Tedford Sees Price Pressures; Time to Buy Timber? – great article<\/strong> – WSJ subscription might be needed – Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n

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  Rising Interest Rates – In a debt burdened economy like that of the United States, interest rates are the lifeblood. In a previous article, I suggested selling call options on TLT (long treasury ETF) under the theory that interest rates probably could not go much lower and it has turned out to be a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}