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 ...
The variable rate The inflation-adjusted rate (often called the I Bond’s variable rate) is now 4.08%. That rate will apply to all I Bonds ever issued, with the starting date depending on the original ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Social Security cost-of-living adjustment is based on an unusual inflation index – CPI-W – and is determined by averaging the indexes for July, August and September and comparing that number to ...
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 ...
Talk about a contrary opinion: Real yields for Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities have risen to their highest levels in nearly 20 years and still we can easily find negative opinions on this ...
I’ve been writing about inflation-protected investments – Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities and U.S. Series I Savings Bonds – since 2011, and I’ve been investing in these products since 1999. So ...