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The amount of inflation priced into 10-year Treasury yields is a little hard to square with what the market is saying about price rises in the near term. Either inflation is going to be high for a long time, and this is something that has changed in the past week or two, or 10-year yields have gone a little too far.

Bonds are buckling around the world, propelling borrowing costs to multi-year highs. Ruth Carson explains why.

A new concentration risk is building inside the corporate bond market, and it mirrors what investors are already experiencing with the Magnificent Seven in the S&P 500 index.

Bitcoin's ( CRYPTO: BTC ) latest rally attempt is running into an unexpected wall; the U.S.

Longer-dated Treasury yields climbed to their highest levels since May 2025 ​on Friday, as a spike in oil prices ​stoked fears that ongoing energy disruptions in the Middle ⁠East could further fuel inflation — which data this week ​showed had already surged in April.

Back-to-back inflation reports out of the US along with heightened energy prices and mounting political uncertainty have seen investors flee global bond markets as benchmark interest rates to the highest levels in nearly a year. The Opening Trade spoke with leading market voices and economists for their analysis.

If you own iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:LQD | LQD Price Prediction) for the monthly check, the recent run of distributions has been steady.

Every investor eventually faces the same question: when does the certainty of a bond beat the upside of a stock?

Key Takeaways The April FOMC meeting's four dissents and resistance to maintaining an easing bias signal a higher bar for rate cuts under incoming Chair Warsh, suggesting investors may favor Treasury floating-rate strategies to navigate a prolonged “higher-for-longer” environment.

AI-driven electricity demand is forcing a decade of infrastructure spending into five years. The municipal bond market is becoming a primary financing channel for that buildout, creating income opportunity.