Negative Yields: It’s a Crazy Mixed Up World
…with negative yields – and not just for the next three months like US bills in the 2008 crisis – we’re talking about five year bonds with negative yields. First…
…with negative yields – and not just for the next three months like US bills in the 2008 crisis – we’re talking about five year bonds with negative yields. First…
…with a negative yield. Previously, bonds that were already trading in the secondary market had reached such high prices that they had a negative yield, but that’s quite different than…
…to their low, high and average yields. The blue bars show the difference in yield between the current yield and the low yield over the last 12 months. In the…
…can’t believe yields are negative! 2. Yikes, I can’t believe yields can be THIS negative! 3. Geez, I can’t believe negative yields lasted more than a few months. Now, my…
…non-US bonds issued worldwide had a negative yield, the question wasn’t whether the yield on bunds would go lower, but how far into negative territory they would go. Unfortunately, I…
…three of the curves are negative all the way out to 10 years. There are other countries with negative yields like Denmark, but the idea that the euro benchmark curve…
The yield curve has been a very hot topic lately in the financial news media. Multiple times a day, there are commentators pointing to the yield curve as a sign…
…ETF that holds Treasury bills actually has a negative yield, since the expense ratio of the fund exceeds the interest earned. Then you see the allegedly high-yielding options, an ETF…
One of the more striking headlines yesterday was that Swiss government bonds now have negative yields out 50 years – that’s right, 50 years! That’s a little hard to fathom,…
A few weeks ago, I wrote about negative interest yields on bonds as long as ten years in Europe. (Click here for a refresher) The main point that I was…