- Yields on 10-year U.S. Treasury Bonds have been trending downward for the past 30 years (1983-2012...
- On May 13, 1981, the three-month T-bill rate was 17.01%, when the Dow was under 1,000. During March...
- According to Moody’s, the cumulative default rate for high-yield municipal bonds from 1970 through...
- Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS) are issued by the U.S. Treasury and are designed to...
- This index, called Lehman Brothers Aggregate Bond Index before 2008, measures returns of U.S....
- The following three tables, based on a 20-, 25-, and 30-year period, show the chances of whether or...
- The table below shows the total amount of debt for the top AA- and AAA-rated government issuers at...
- The long-term default rate for GO bonds, which represents 40% of the municipal bond marketplace, is...
- From 2008 to 2012, investment-grade and high-yield corporate bond funds doubled in size, to $1.2...
- Charles Dow created the Dow Jones Transportation Average in 1896, but total return bond indexes...
- I Savings Bonds are issued by the U.S. Treasury and pay an interest rate composed of a fixed rate...
- In a September 30, 2011 piece on “60 Minutes,” Meredith Whitney, a well-respected banking analyst,...
- Resolution Trust securitization set the stage for modern-day CMBS. Roughly $30 billion of...
- As a group, emerging markets have debt equal to ~ 1/3 their GDP, half that of the U.S. The average...
- The returns on 20-year U.S. Treasurys have been amazing over the past decade (2002-2011) and over...
- Duration, first developed in 1938 by Frederick Macaulay, measures bond price volatility. It is a...