Interest Rates

Researchers argue that decades of falling interest rates distorted estimates of corporate bond risk premiums.

Longer-term bonds are more attractive than they’ve been in a long time, but they still carry a fair amount of risk.

Journalist and author Robin Wigglesworth explains how rising interest payments could leave the US with less room to spend on defense, healthcare, and infrastructure.

Fed meeting minutes, consumer credit, and more.

The economy added fewer jobs than expected, but analysts say the labor market remains healthy and the Fed is focused on inflation.

The AI trade cooled and bond yields soared to multi-decade highs.

Sticky inflation and the AI borrowing boom are driving yields upward with no signs of slowing.

And why today’s biggest market stories may be distractions.

The conventional wisdom misses the role of the Fed.

Large corporates will be affected next through refinance and earnings cycles.

That means avoiding companies with too much debt and adding exposure to high-dividend stocks like financials.

Here’s what rising yields on the 10-year Treasury may mean for stock investors.

He makes the case for Japanese government bonds, European credit, and US investment-grade bonds.

Higher capital costs come on top of the threat of AI, an exit bottleneck, and damped investor appetite.

Plus, a continued HVAC boom, and the SEC’s move to end its oversight of shareholder proposals.