Follow Tipswatch on X for updates on daily Treasury auctions and real yield trends. This chart shows monthly and six-month non-seasonally adjusted inflation numbers that the Treasury uses to set the ...
David Enna, Tipswatch.com On October 21, 2021, the Treasury offered $19 billion in a new 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected ...
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The U.S. Treasury on Thursday will auction $26 billion in a new 5-year Treasury ...
The U.S. Treasury followed a decade-long tradition and set the fixed rate of the Series I Savings Bond at 1.40% for purchases from November 2026 through April 2027. That creates a highly attractive ...
Tipswatch is written by David Enna, a longtime journalist based in Charlotte, N.C. I have been investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities since 1999, also called ‘the good old days.’ This ...
At Friday’s market close, the Treasury was estimating the real yield of a full-term 5-year TIPS at 2.52%, down from recent highs but up 88 basis points since June 1. If this TIPS gets a real yield ...
By David Enna, Tipswatch.com The U.S. Treasury on Thursday will auction $26 billion in a new 5-year Treasury Inflation-Protected Security, CUSIP 91282CRR4. While the real yield and coupon rate will be ...
Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities are a complicated investment, and it’s hard to find plain-language explanations. I have a Q&A on TIPS that answers many questions, but I thought it would be ...
Note: I posted an updated I Bond analysis on April 14: Update, April 28, 2023: Treasury raises I Bond’s fixed rate to 0.9%; new composite rate is 4.30% After a year of raging-high demand, where do we ...
U.S. inflation rose a bit higher than expectations in September, while also setting in stone the variable rate for the Series I Savings Bond and Social Security’s cost of living adjustment for ...
You didn’t expect this to be simple, did you? Author’s note: This article ended up being “crowdsourced” through helpful (and accurate) criticism in the comments section. The Excel formulae have been ...