Bonds in the Dust

Bonds in the Dust

This week continued the bond market rally of last week, leaving bonds in the dust. The more people saw the shiny stock market, the more dull those bonds looked. When no one buys bonds they have to offer higher and higher prices to attract investors to the bonds....

Quiet Until Friday

This week was a pretty quiet week with economic data until Friday. Today we got the September retail sales were up 0.6%, which was more than expected, and the PPI (producer price index) was up 0.3%. Both are signals that higher inflation could be on the horizon. On...