Bonds

Slow-and-steady funds with a traditional 60% stocks/40% bonds mix are getting renewed attention for their recent outperformance. How to buy in.

Milei’s post-midterm victory speech kindled hope for less chain saw actions and more coalition building over the next two years.

That rate would be little changed from the 3.98% interest rate that has prevailed since May 1. 

If President Javier Milei can keep his Peronist opponents from a veto-proof supermajority, Argentine sovereign bonds, trading at similar spreads to Ukraine’s, could look like a buy again.

Pimco’s Sonali Pier leans on corporate bonds and mortgages at home and abroad to produce winning results.

A cooling job market and U.S. government shutdown have investors running to the safety of Treasuries.

Buying a house is more costly than before the pandemic, which is keeping demand at bay.

The fast pace of recent gains in margin debt suggest the bullish fervor may have run its course.

A flight to safety is sending investors to the comfort of bonds.

Corporate bonds that are below investment grade status may be less likely to default now. But investors still need to be careful.

Mortgage rates often echo changes in the 10-year Treasury yield, which is rising. Financing costs could increase for buyers.

Tricolor became a major used-car auto dealer before its sudden liquidation last month. Big U.S. banks appear to have overlooked warning signs surrounding its quick growth.

The clock is ticking on Sanae Takaichi even before she takes office, William Pesek writes in a guest commentary.

If young workers have near-term financial goals like buying a house, it makes sense to keep part of their savings in bonds or cash.

With the government not publishing key data like the September jobs report, traders are scouring little-known reports for guidance.

Lower rates have spurred the sales of corporate bonds. But bankruptcies are a sign that not all is well in the more shadowy private credit world of bank loans and closed-end funds.

Existing home sales are on track to end 2025 around the 30-year lows set in the previous two years.

Bonds offer a hedge as stocks get expensive; the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond exchange-traded fund is up 5.61% year to date, on a total return basis.

Good risk-adjusted yield has been hard to find lately. Some money pros are looking beyond traditional fixed-income categories.

Many of the structural forces that turbocharged American market performance are at turning points, leading to greater uncertainty in markets.

A government shutdown could keep the gains coming.

This week’s hotly anticipated event—Friday’s employment data—may be delayed, and that’s sparking a flight to quality in the debt market.

IBM’s quantum processors are ntegrated with classical computers to predict market behavior.

Success by President Javier Milei in legislative midterms could fuel explosive gains for investors.

While payouts on corporate bonds are historically stingy relative to government bonds, those of another portfolio staple, long-term municipal bonds, are historically generous.