The U.S. Treasury market has been out of investors’ favor this year, piling up heavy losses.

If one has been long bonds since July of 2015, its been a long and hard 6-months, as bond prices have fallen hard/yields shot up. Could rates be peaking and bond prices at lows?

The new president has an ambitious plan to spend money and cut taxes. Here are a few exchange-traded funds that can provide some ballast for a likely rise in both interest rates and inflation.

It’s often said that a picture’s worth a thousand words. Normally, these weekly missives run 300 words, so my picture may be worth a lot less.

Interest rates are forecast to rise across the board.

Hot whispers of the day: SPY, TBF, XLF.

Nationally and globally, the bond market absolutely towers over the stock market – by nearly 35% worldwide, and more than double in the United States.

Interest rates over the past 10 years keep bouncing and creating a series of lower highs. Is the trend of lower highs about to end?

For ETF investors who are bearish on the bond market for the near term, here are some ETFs for your portfolio: TMV, TTT, TBT and TBF.

A full month has now passed since the Federal Reserve hiked interest rates for the first time since 2006. This development created a far different environment than many investors anticipated.

Just when you thought all of the rising rate chatter from 2013 was but a distant memory, the investment community is once again dredging up strategies to shelter your portfolio from the ticking time bomb known as your bond funds.

The rate-sensitive space fell out of investors’ favor to start 2015 as the Fed gave signals of dialing back its low interest rate policies soon.

Bond ETFs have been in rally mode for months and investors need to understand the opportunities and implications of these moves.

Investors should be prepared with tools to combat rising interest rates and other adverse effects in their portfolio as the Fed makes changes to fiscal policy.

In early February, the U.S. Treasury made a statement that has not received much attention even though what it implies regarding their thoughts on the future demand for treasury securities (and hence yields) is very interesting.