By Dharamraj Dhutia MUMBAI, June 4 (Reuters) – Foreign investors are flocking to short-term Indian government bonds as they find attractive entry points amid “expectations that the interest rate cycle is turning, with the Iran war driving inflation higher.” Bonds with maturities of less than five years accounted for more than two-thirds of the top…
Could investing in the stock market right the course of Social Security? A new report from the Center for Retirement Research crunched the numbers. Spoiler alert: probably not. Social Security reserves are on track to reach a critical tipping point in about seven years. At that time, if no adjustments are made, the benefit program…
U.S. 30-year Treasury bond futures rose 1.18% in 2025, while the iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT) posted a marginal decline of 0.19%. I asked where US government bonds were headed in 2026 in a November 27, 2025 Barchart article, where I concluded with the following: I favor lower interest rates in 2026, but…
Bank of America (BAC) it just raised a not-so-subtle red flag for bond market investors and anyone positioned in the stock market. In a new Flow Show note, chief equity strategist Michael Hartnett He argued that the era of “anything but bonds” is already here and that traditional security trading has failed. Laying out his…
If you’re investing for the long term, history shows that stocks will give you the win. Over the past 200 years, stocks have generated real returns of 4.9% annually, according to Deutsche Bank’s Long-Term Asset Return Study, which analyzed data from 56 economies dating back to the 19th century. A traditional 60/40 portfolio approached 4.2%,…
