The Bond Market Explained for Mohamed El-Erian

On Thursday Mohamed A. El-Erian was on CNBC`s Halftime Report and he said something that a lot of people have been saying regarding the bond market, and it needs to be cleared up, because the amount of poor understanding regarding the bond market by people who make their living, i.e., are in the financial market business is astounding. It is even more mind blowing given that Mohamed A. El-Erian actually worked at a Bond Firm in PIMCO, and helped manage Harvard` s endowment in the past.

http://www.econmatters.com/2014/08/the-bond-market-explained-for-mohamed.html

Related Posts

  • 82
    Bond investors hungry for yield have pushed further and further into high-risk territory and Pimco sees five warning signals that credit markets are getting overly frothy. "The lower reaches of the credit market have become particularly stretched," Christian Stracke, global head of Pimco's credit research group, said in a note last…
    Tags: pimco, bond, market, trading
  • 82
    Bill Gross’ spectacular fall from the top of the bond market has put tens of billions in play at a time when minuscule yields demand a fixed-income superstar. A brilliant, battle-scarred billionaire, Jeffrey Gundlach, stands ready to be coronated. Bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach is wearing a white T-shirt, faded blue…
    Tags: bond, trading
  • 80
    Why would anyone want to buy a bond that last longer than they do? These ultra-long-dated assets fell out of favor in the fallout from the financial crisis, as investors shifted to shorter-duration bonds to protect them against unpredictable spikes in interest rates. But now the "century bond" is returning…
    Tags: bond, financial, trading
  • 73
    All it takes is a few mouse clicks to buy shares in the Scout Unconstrained Bond Fund (SUBFX), an exchange-traded fund that tracks a concoction of debt tied to the government, financial firms, mortgage pools, and other entities. And all it takes is a few mouse clicks to sell—something that has begun…
    Tags: bond, financial, amount, trading, people
  • 70
    Here they are: the most important charts in the world. A lot has changed since the last time we published this collection back in July. The economic situation in Europe has deteriorated, the unemployment rate in the US has fallen below 6%, and the Fed looks poised to conclude its…
    Tags: market, people, lot, bond, trading