Articles Referencing TBF

What's Moving Treasury Yields Higher? - Real Time Insight

5/15/2013, 3:29 pm from Zacks.com in Investing, Stocks

After falling steadily from mid-March to early-May, the yield on the 10-year U.S. Treasury note has risen rather sharply over the last two weeks. You can see this reversal in the chart below: ... Read >>

Bond Market Screaming a Big Message - Real Time Insight

4/29/2013, 11:52 am from Zacks.com in Investing, Stocks

A funny thing happened on the way to serious discussion about tapering off Quantitative Easing sometime late this year: the 10-year Treasury Note rallied strongly from a yield over 2% all... Read >>

First Trust Rolls Out Long/Short Junk Bond ETF

3/5/2013, 1:13 pm from Investor's Business Daily in Investing, ETFs

First Trust Advisors has added a new menu item for investors starving for dividend income in an era of unpalatable interest rates. The Wheaton, Ill.-based firm rolled out last weekFirst... Read >>

Time for Inverse Bond ETFs? - ETF News And Commentary

2/15/2013, 1:30 pm from Zacks.com in Investing, ETFs

With the major U.S. stock indexes hovering around their all time highs, it can be safely argued that risk on attitude has totally swept the market. Investors' flight to safety seems to have... Read >>

Best ETF Buys When Interest Rates Rise, Bonds Fall

2/11/2013, 6:38 pm from Investor's Business Daily in Investing, ETFs

Rock-bottom interest rates are a blast for borrowers, a sore for savers and an oncoming injury for investors. Yields are historically low and thus have more room to rise than fall. If yields... Read >>

Time to Exit Treasury Bond ETFs? - ETF News And Commentary

1/17/2013, 11:36 am from Zacks.com in Investing, ETFs

2012 was another good year for the bond markets as the investors continued to pour money into bond funds even though the yields plunged. The benchmark 10-year note ended the year at 1.76%--the... Read >>

ETF Strategies: Five Alternative Plays For 2013

12/31/2012, 1:57 pm from Investor's Business Daily in Investing, ETFs

2013: A Look Back And Ahead A fully diversified investment portfolio includes a mix of stocks, bonds and so-called alternative assets, which are basically anything that isn't a stock or a... Read >>

Enough Already With The Fed's Transparency

9/14/2012, 5:25 pm from SeekingAlpha in Investing, Stocks

By Sy Harding : When Ben Bernanke became chairman of the Federal Reserve in 2006 he promised a significant change. The Fed would be much more "transparent" in letting markets and the... Read >>

Inverse Fund the Perfect Play for a Bond Bubble Burst

3/9/2011, 7:47 pm from Sam Collins in Investing, Stocks

The ProShares Short 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NYSE: TBF ) is your best bet to profit from the end of the Fed's quantitative easing policies, and what some are fearing will... Read >>

An ETF to Profit From the Bond Crash

2/7/2011, 8:00 pm from Sam Collins in Investing, Stocks

ProShares Short 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NYSE: TBF ) - This fund moves inverse to the daily performance of the Barclays Capital 20+ Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index. The... Read >>

A Defensive ETF for 2011

12/30/2010, 3:42 am from Sam Collins in Investing, Stocks

ProShares Short 20+ Year Treasury ETF (NYSE: TBF ) - This fund moves inverse to the daily performance of the Barclays Capital 20+ Year U.S. Treasury Bond Index. The... Read >>

Top 6 ETFs to Buy for 2011

12/22/2010, 3:40 pm from Sam Collins in Investing, Stocks

The Smartest Way to Play the Hottest Sectors 3 Hidden Takeover Targets to Double Your Money With the danger of European debt contagion, increasing tensions in Korea,... Read >>

Portfolio Insurance for Bullish Investors

11/16/2010, 4:50 pm from SeekingAlpha in Investing, ETFs

Steve Reitmeister submits: Weekends provide a valuable time for investors to pause and reflect. That's because during the week there is such information overload that it's often hard to... Read >>

Shorting the Long Treasury Is This Fund Manager's Highest Conviction Idea

1/26/2010, 8:38 pm from SeekingAlpha in Investing, ETFs, Stocks

David McMillan submits: David McMillan CFP, RFC is co-founder of Boulder, Colorado based Caledonia Wealth Management , Ltd., serving high net worth families and individuals. David's... Read >>

Shorting the 10 Yr. Treasury Is This Fund Manager's Highest Conviction Idea

1/26/2010, 4:43 am from SeekingAlpha in Investing, ETFs, Stocks

David McMillan submits: David McMillan CFP, RFC is co-founder of Boulder, Colorado based Caledonia Wealth Management , Ltd., serving high net worth families and individuals. David's... Read >>