The US Treasury Yield Curves – Are the markets really that bothered?
Image via Wikipedia As a general introduction today we will look at two US Treasury Yield curves. The first Yield curve in the Curve graphic 1 below is the 3 Month bills compared to the 10 Year...
View ArticleThe US Treasury Yield Curves #2 – Do you factor inflation into the deal?
In the previous article we posted, mention was made of the (0.72)% [negative 0.72%] real return US Treasury investors can currently expect on 5 Year Treasury Bills. The Nominal (quoted) Yield Curves...
View ArticleA sigh of relief?
Some say that in life timing is everything… And so too it is with economics. We don’t yet have a fully developed and ‘mature’ [in terms of life-cycle] grasp of the impact of timing with leads and lags...
View ArticleUS Treasuries – An FX or a market call?
So it has finally happened. After threatening for months that a credit rating down grade was probable for the USA, Standard & Poor’s finally took the ‘big step’ on Friday 5 August, after the major...
View ArticleUS Treasuries – 4 trading days on and rates look rosy?
Today’s brief commentary piece tracks the US Treasury Yield curve of 5 August 2011 (before the Standard & Poor’s downgrade announcement) and the closing rate on 10 August 2011. As can be observed,...
View ArticleUS Treasuries – A steady erosion in confidence?
For today’s brief analysis of the US Treasuries (T-Bill) Yield rates, we constructed the chart and table below utilising data from the US Treasury official site. We took a point in time being mid...
View ArticleUS Treasuries – Expanding the confidence time horizon
In our previous analysis piece on the Erosion of Confidence in the Capital Market, we discussed the downward trend in US T-Bill since 2006. In today’s brief analysis piece we have expanded the time...
View ArticleThe Flight – Keeping an eye on the real 30 Year Treasury Yield Rates
The real (inflation adjusted) 30 Year T-Bill rates have since the beginning of the year averaged 1.72% (simple averaging). Since the beginning of September 2011 the average real rate has dipped to...
View ArticleThe BIG Sovereign Debt Structure cliff – Part 1
In yesterday’s article, “Where will all the new money come from?” we concluded the brief analysis with the Sovereign Debt Maturity profiles (otherwise known as the Debt Structure) of both the USA and...
View ArticleThe Return of Risk?
Department of Treasury Seal (Photo credit: woodleywonderworks) We take a brief look at two interesting Treasury Yield curves today. The first Yield Curve takes a snapshot view of the yield curves at...
View ArticleUS Treasury Yield Curves – Revisited mid July 2013
US Treasury Seal (Source: Wikipedia) We resume our intermittent analysis of the US Treasury Yield Curves today with a comparison between the mid July 2013 versus mid July 2012 (in chart 1) and mid July...
View ArticleUS Treasury Yield Curve – The Shutdown Analysis (Part 1)
Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Today we very briefly focus on the dynamics we have observed in the US Treasury Yield Curve between two critical dates: 1....
View ArticleTechnical Default Options – US Government Shutdown Analysis (Part2)
Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The real challenge and issue: The US Debt default that is looming ever larger with each passing day that the US Congress,...
View ArticleTechnical Default Options – US Government Shutdown Analysis (Part2)
Seal of the United States Department of the Treasury (Photo credit: Wikipedia) The real challenge and issue: The US Debt default that is looming ever larger with each passing day that the US Congress,...
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