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Popular TIPS may not deliver what investors expect
Investors flocking to Treasury inflation-protected securities may be in for a rude awakening when interest rates start to…
Funds that can ride possible inflation wave
Mutual funds that invest in floating-rate bank loans have emerged as one of the most popular strategies for protecting portfolios against rising interest rates
Inflation versus CDs: No contest
Savers with cash in longer-term certificates of deposit are losing out to inflation, according to Market Rates Insight
The inflation situation: More companies now eyeing cost increases
Gas isn't the only thing that is getting more expensive. eying
Canary in the coal mine? Temp wages set to rise
Economists say this may be the first real sign that inflation is coming -- and soon
Is the Fed raising rates on the QT?
A recent mortgage-backed securities sale and reverse repos have gone unnoticed by investors fixated on Fed funds rate.
Advisers rate Obama’s performance – and it’s not pretty
Independent financial advisers slam his economic policies; Reagan still the man
Bill Gross: Job gains show quantitative easing is working
Bill Gross, manager of the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said the larger-than-forecast gain in employment suggests the Federal Reserve's policy of quantitative easing is working.
Advisers big on stocks, survey finds
Financial advisers have had their fill of bonds but have a hunger for stocks, according to the results of a January survey released by The Charles Schwab Corp. last Monday
Bill Gross: Why inflation matters more than Bernanke says
Bill Gross, who runs the world's biggest bond fund at Pacific Investment Management Co., said gains in so-called headline inflation matter more for the U.S. economy than Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke suggests.
U.S. in for ’20 years of rising interest rates’: Loomis Sayles
Firm has cut funds' average bond maturities from 19 years to nine
Who’s afraid of inflation wolf? Investors plow into 10-year Treasuries
Uncle Sam's most recent offering of medium-term notes draws surprising interest; 4% yield seen as possible
Hedging TIPS inflation bets
Investors flocking to Treasury inflation-protected securities may be in for a rude awakening when interest rates start to rise
Crisis in Libya pushes oil over $100 mark
Price of a barrel of crude tops century line for first time since Oct. 2008
Bernanke bets commodities won’t fan inflation concern
Investors are betting with Ben S. Bernanke that surging food and energy prices won't accelerate U.S. inflation, allowing him to maintain easy money.
Inflation set to puncture bond portfolios, warns FPA’s Atteberry
Rising prices on the march, says fixed-income fund manager; 'worst thing that can happen' for debt investors
Sure sign of inflation? Buffett’s latest maneuver
Berkshire's $1.5B debt offering helps company replace floating-rate notes with fixed-rates
The 2011 Outlook
Financial advisers are upbeat about prospects for stocks in 2011, with many predicting that last year's broad market surge will continue into this year. That's what they're telling their clients, too.
Bernanke warns of low inflation
The following are remarks delivered by Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke at the Revisiting Monetary Policy in a Low-Inflation Environment Conference at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston on Oct. 15
Historic first: Treasury sells debt with negative yield
The Treasury sold $10 billion of five-year Treasury Inflation Protected Securities at a negative yield for the first time in the history of U.S. debt.
