iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

TLT

Market cap $43.7B

Peter Schiff has spent his career predicting bond market trouble. On the latest episode of his podcast he thinks the trouble finally has nowhere left to hide.

Gold drops as rates rise on Thursday, as we continue to see higher yields work against the value of gold. At this point, we are seeing a lot of overhead pressures, but still have a longer-term bullish run possible.

For decades, the playbook for high-income investors was almost reflexive: put municipal bonds in your taxable account, put Treasuries and corporates in your IRA.

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) has declined 27.4% over five years despite zero bond defaults, while the iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF (IEF) returned negative 5% and iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF (SGOV) returned positive 19% over the same period, all from the same risk-free issuer but different duration exposures.

CPI Inflation recently accelerated to a three-year high due to elevated energy prices tied to the U.S-Iran conflict. Treasury bond yields have risen sharply due to expectations that the Federal Reserve will pivot to interest rate hikes.

Treasurys rose in price terms in Asia on Tuesday morning following a U.S. holiday on Monday.

Kevin Warsh was sworn in as Federal Reserve Chairman this week, and the most striking thing about his arrival is how little Wall Street seems to care.

President Donald Trump's room to wage war while maneuvering on economic policy is being tested by a force largely beyond his control: the bond market.

Reid L'anson breaks down how the war in Iran is impacting the energy market. He says coming into the year thinking we'd be short on oil helped coming into geopolitical conflict, but every day the Strait of Hormuz stays closed we lose profit.

The usual advice is to hold only 60% of your assets in stock. If you're wealthy, a 90/10 split is far better.