
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Bond rates have ticked up slightly of late, but the rates may not last, and over $13 trillion dollars worth of government bonds worldwide are now paying negative interest rates to investors. Japan had plenty of buyers for a fifty-year bond paying exactly zero percent! Steve and Sinclair review a Wall Street Journal report on why bond rates so low, and why bond fund investors are at risk.
By Steve Jurich5
22 ratings
Bond rates have ticked up slightly of late, but the rates may not last, and over $13 trillion dollars worth of government bonds worldwide are now paying negative interest rates to investors. Japan had plenty of buyers for a fifty-year bond paying exactly zero percent! Steve and Sinclair review a Wall Street Journal report on why bond rates so low, and why bond fund investors are at risk.