I mentioned in an email update I'm planning to sell all my Series I Savings Bonds ("I Bonds") with a fixed rate of 0.3% or below next year. These I Bonds were bought during the last 9 years. The fixed ...
What To Do With A Maturing CD
Back in October 2015, I bought into a CD special from Northwest Federal Credit Union. It was a 3-year CD at 3%, which was a very good rate at that time. That CD is maturing next month. Another reader ...
Long-Term Bonds Do Wonders When Times Are Right
Reader Ron reminded me of this blunder I wrote back in May: TIPS Price Up: Buy, Hold, Or Sell? Back then I wrote about a 30-year TIPS bond maturing in Feb. 2041 having gained 13% in short three months ...
CPI Seasonal Adjustments
Every month, around the 15th, a government agency Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) announces the Consumer Price Index for the previous month. The inflation numbers for May was announced last week. A ...
TIPS Price Up: Buy, Hold, Or Sell?
US Treasury sold 30-year TIPS at 2.19% real yield in February 2011. I didn't buy it because the maturity is too long for me. Now, not mere three months later, the value of this bond has gone up ...
Explore TIPS: A Practical Guide to Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities
Long time readers know I have a special interest in TIPS, the inflation indexed bonds. At one of my annual reader surveys, a reader asked why I wrote about TIPS all the time. I like TIPS because they ...