The Fed’s short-term rates matter, but the main action now is in the 10-year Treasury market, which influences mortgages, ...

There's great value back in bonds. The yield one starts with is a reasonable floor on the real or the actual yield one is going to achieve over a five-year period. Click to read.

Short-term interest rates have come down, but floating-rate or bank loans, which carry interest rates that reset in line with a short-term benchmark, still sport robust yields. The yield on the ...

That is, unless you can stomach a potentially big decline in value when the stock market experiences one of its inevitable drops. Bond values move inversely to interest rate changes. When interest ...

When rates are rising (and bond prices, which move in the opposite direction, are falling), these securities typically hold up better than the broad bond market because their interest payments ...

Investors are now betting that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates just once more this year, a drastic shift in expectations since late 2024.