Government debt, also known as Treasury securities or simply “Treasuries“, are the debt financing instruments of the United States Federal government issued by the United States Department of the Treasury through the Bureau of the Public Debt. Simply described, Treasuries are IOUs for money the government borrows from investors in order to pay it’s bills.
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Tired of earning ZERO percent on your Series I Savings Bonds? Well then, there’s good news for all of us savers. TreasuryDirect just announced that Savings Bonds yields have now turned positive. No.. I’m not kidding.
I Bond Earnings Rate 3.36%, Fixed Rate 0.30%
The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination of a [...]
Some pretty poor news about the new I-Bond rates for May, 2009. The combined interest rate return from now through October is zero percent!
According to TreasuryDirect:
I Bond Earnings Rate 0.00%, Fixed Rate 0.10%
The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds is a combination of a fixed rate, which applies for the life of the bond, [...]
The stock markets took a tumble this past week on a bevy of poor economic reports, news that retail sales slumped for the sixth straight month, and deteriorating credit quality and record losses in the financial sector.
According to Briefing.com, for the week, the DOW ended down 3.7% at 8281, the NASDAQ down 2.7% at 1529 [...]
The Treasury Department raised the fixed rate on their Series I Savings Bond from May 2008’s unprecedented ZERO percent fixed rate to a more enticing rate of 0.70%. Combined with the new inflation rate of 4.92%, November 2008’s I Bond total earnings rate is now 5.64%.
According to TreasuryDirect:
The earnings rate for Series I Savings Bonds [...]
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Bonds And Interest Rates
The Vanguard Group has posted a interesting article in their Insights section on something of concern to bond market investors – the inverse relationship between bond prices and interest rates.
As excerpted from Bonds and rates: The reality behind the headlines:
Moves in interest rates are notoriously hard to predict, but that hasn’t stopped many market observers [...]