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iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

5/23/2012, 8:01 AM ET
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  • Tuesday 10:55 AM A nice bookend to Goldman's bell-ringing March 21 buy stocks/sell bonds call, David Kostin and crew are today out with a bearish note warning about poor near-term prospects for stocks. The S&P vs. Treasurys in the period before and after the March 21 boner.
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  • Monday 7:57 AM So bearish on Treasury bonds just a few weeks ago at yields 70 basis points higher, growing numbers of bond managers now posit the 10-year could fall to 1.5% (currently 1.74%). "Fundamentals are out the window at this point," says Matthew Tuttle, who last week jettisoned a lot of stocks and high-yield paper from his portfolio to buy Treasurys. Cycles, gotta love cycles.
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    [U.S. Economy]
  • Friday 12:55 PM The yield on JGBs falls to 0.815%, the lowest level since 2003. Folks of a certain age will remember that summer and remember the seeming impossibility of that level. We're not only back, but the rest of the world is headed there too. German 10-year Bunds, 1.43%, U.S. 10-years, 1.71%. At the short end, Germany has gone even further, its 2-years yielding 0.05% vs. Japan at 0.10%.
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  • Thursday 2:56 PM The move into Treasurys has left the yield curve at its flattest level since the end of 2008, with 30-year - off 8 bps to 2.82% - yielding only 273 bps more than the 90-day T-bill. At 1.71%, the 10-year is approaching its lowest yield ever. As in 2011 among the world's most hated asset classes, Treasurys in 2012 are close to overtaking stocks yet again.
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  • Thursday 11:30 AM The divergence earlier this year between the Citigroup Economic Surprise (pointing to an improving economy) and Treasury yields (not) has been resolved in favor of Treasurys. Another decline this week has brought the mean-reverting index closer to its mean, while Treasury yields plumb historic lows.
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ETF Stats
  • Expense Ratio: 0.15%
  • Average Bid Ask Ratio: 0.01%
  • Tracking Error: 0.61%
  • Concentration Risk: 16.46%
  • Capital Gains Dist. %: 0.00%
  • Number of Securities: 17
  • Dividend Amount: $0.266781
  • Dividend Date: 03/01/2012
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    Tue, May 22 • Bill L. • Comment!
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The iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond Fund seeks to approximate the total rate of return of the long-term sector of the United States Treasury market as defined by the Barclays Capital U.S. 20+ Year Treasury Bond Index.
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