This past year was one of the best since the financial crisis for fixed-income returns. The year started with a significant dovish shift in Federal Reserve policy, which led to increased demand for ...

With greater 2019 flows than their active counterparts, passive taxable-bond funds now have a third of that market. Despite the S&P 500 gaining 31.5% in 2019, U.S. equity funds had $41.4 billion in ...

Corporate bonds stole the fixed-income show in 2019, outpacing nearly all government debt funds. Riding the wave of market volatility and a tightening Fed, the 20 bond mutual funds and ETFs with the ...

Investment grade corporate bonds did very well in 2019, and they should continue to perform in 2020, though they are unlikely to match the performance of this year. Foreign demand, easy central banks ...

Analysts are split on the direction of government-bond yields in 2020, a sign of confusion about the course of the economy and monetary policy. Economists surveyed last month by The Wall Street ...

As a bond provides a contractual right to a series of future payments received at specified points of time, the price for a bond is simply the present discounted value of the future cash flows. The ...

The U.S. repo market has come under the spotlight in the past couple of days as surging short-term interest rates are causing some stress for overnight funding on Wall Street, reminiscent of the 2019 ...

May 2019 was the last time that German 10-year yields were above zero. The ECB is currently behind on its normalization path, compared to the Federal Reserve and the Bank of England. But surging ...