Latest Articles about TBF

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

Todd Bunton — Wed, 15 May 2013 23:29:16 Z

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:

Bond Market Screaming a Big Message - Real Time Insight

Kevin Cook — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 19:52:39 Z

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 the

First Trust Rolls Out Long/Short Junk Bond ETF

Investor's Business Daily — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 23:13:00 Z

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 Trust

Time for Inverse Bond ETFs? - ETF News And Commentary

Zacks Equity Research — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 23:30:01 Z

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

Best ETF Buys When Interest Rates Rise, Bonds Fall

Investor's Business Daily — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 04:38:00 Z

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

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

Neena Mishra — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 21:36:01 Z

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

ETF Strategies: Five Alternative Plays For 2013

Investor's Business Daily — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:57:00 Z

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

Is It Safe To Own Leveraged ETFs Again?

Ana Kostioukova — Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:17:25 Z

These products have long been considered the wildlings of ETF performance:Hold any one of them for longer than one rebalance period and it could spell doom for your portfolio, according to

Shorting Treasurys with ETFs

Dennis Hudachek — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 20:25:07 Z

, daily daily daily Source: Bloomberg daily monthly daily Don't forget to check IndexUniverse.com's ETF Data section. Copyright ® 2011

McCall’s Call: A World Without QE3

Matthew D. McCall — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:56:24 Z

It's been almost three years since the first round of quantitative easing began, with the Federal Reserve pouring over $1 trillion into the U.S. bond market, hoping to spur borrowing after the

McCall’s Call: Bond ETFs For Higher Rates

Matthew D. McCall — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:54:32 Z

There are two ways to look at the current state of interest rates in the U.S. On the one hand, they're certainly higher than where they were late last year, and yet they're still very low in

Inverse Fund the Perfect Play for a Bond Bubble Burst

Sam Collins — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 05:47:02 Z

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

An ETF to Profit From the Bond Crash

Sam Collins — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 06:00:43 Z

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

McCall’s Call: Profiting From US Austerity

Matthew D. McCall — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 08:19:10 Z

The Republicans taking control of Congress has given rise to a key word that was a hot topic in Europe last year-"austerity." Austerity is defined as lower spending and the reduction

A Defensive ETF for 2011

Sam Collins — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:42:48 Z

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