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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Results
[An updated version of this article appears in my new web site Explore Bonds, together with many other articles on investing in bonds.] This is the fourth installment in my TIPS auction series. The...
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TIPS During Deflation
[Updated on Oct. 28, 2008. All yields are real yields, after inflation/deflation adjustments.] While the stock market was in turmoil, the real yields on Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS)...
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Explore TIPS: A Practical Guide to Investing in Treasury Inflation-Protected...
Long time readers know I have a special interest in TIPS, the inflation indexed bonds. At one of my annual reader surveys, a reader asked why I wrote about TIPS all the time. I like TIPS because they...
View ArticleWhat To Do With A Maturing CD
Back in October 2015, I bought into a CD special from Northwest Federal Credit Union. It was a 3-year CD at 3%, which was a very good rate at that time. That CD is maturing next month. Another reader...
View ArticleWhen To Sell I Bonds
I mentioned in an email update I’m planning to sell all my Series I Savings Bonds (“I Bonds”) with a fixed rate of 0.3% or below next year. These I Bonds were bought during the last 9 years. The fixed...
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More Inflation Protection with TIPS After Maxing Out I Bonds
I Bonds are great, but there’s a limit on how much you can buy each year. After you buy all the I Bonds you can buy in your personal account, trust, business, as gifts, from your tax refund, and for...
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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the Schedule
This is the first post in a series on buying new-issue TIPS in an auction. Other posts in the series include: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the AnnouncementTIPS Auction Step By Step: Place OrderTIPS...
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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the Announcement
This is part two of the TIPS auctions series. The other posts in the series are: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the ScheduleTIPS Auction Step By Step: Place the OrderTIPS Auction Step By Step: Read...
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TIPS Auction Step By Step: Place the Order
This is part three of the TIPS auctions series. Other posts in this series are: TIPS Auction Step By Step: Know the ScheduleTIPS Auction Step By Step: Read the AnnouncementTIPS Auction Step By Step:...
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How to Buy Treasury Bills & Notes On the Secondary Market
I showed how to buy new-issue Treasury bills and notes in the previous post How To Buy Treasury Bills & Notes Without Fee at Online Brokers. Buying a new issue is the easiest and the least...
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