Bonds

Investment performance in 2010 will be heavily influenced by this vital indicator.

Punishing yields of 0.05% on three-month T-bills and .85% on short-term Treasury notes are devastating to the millions of investors who rely on income from their portfolios to fund living expenses.

The investment of the decade and the exodus from Wall Street…

This is a truly ghastly environment for yield-conscious investors. Three-month T-bills yield 0.03%, two-year T-notes 0.73%, five-year T-notes 2.09%, and ten-year T-notes a whopping 3.3%. Who is locking up money for ten years at a 3.3% yield?

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What worries me most about the stock market…

Despite pockets of strength, the bear market in stocks staggers on, eyeing, with an increasing daily concern, the RPM’s (Radical Progressive Movement) sweeping program of socialism and quasi central government nationalization. The stock market hated the Bush-fronted neo-con disaster, and rightfully, is even more scared of the “Chicago Cabal.”

I just checked the yield on my money market fund. How does 0.01% sound to you? Sounds to me like the mid term GPA average for the Delta House gang back at Dean Wormer’s fictional Faber College.

The stock market is one of the best leading economic indicators. And investment grade U.S. stocks continue in a Bear market. (1) Dow Jones Industrials, down 0.1% (2) Dow Jones Transportations, down 5.6% (3) Dow Jones Utilities, down 7.6%. By contrast many International Indices are soaring (1) Brazil up 42% (2) Canada up 17% (3) Hong Kong up 26% (4) Japan up 11% and (5) Singapore up 32%.

Ah, retirement. Congratulations. You made it. Whether you got here by selling your business or working your way through corporate America, you’ve made it...