Stock Market & Sentiment Update for June 16, 2018

We're nearly half way into 2018 and all stock markets have positive returns while the bond market, as measured by Vanguard's Total Bond Fund, is down 1.99% YTD.

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Market (charts) Update

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Below are many of my favorite charts.  I explain most of the sentiment charts when I feature them in my newsletter.

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Graph: US Treasury Rates & SPY Yield

US Treasury bonds still have very low yields on an historical basis.  This chart shows US Treasury rates and the Federal Reserve's Fed Fund's Rate back to 1993.

Currently, the 10-year US Treasury bond has a 2.19% yield.

For comparison, the ETF for the S&P500, SPY, has a yield of 1.94%.

This week I used some of my profit taking from soaring technology and momentum stocks near their record highs to buy a stock that was well off it's record high with a dividend yield of nearly 4%.    

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Graph 10 & 30-Yr T-Bonds vs S&P500

This graph shows ten and thirty year US Treasury Bond rates versus the S&P500 from 1995 to today.

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• US Treasury Rates at a Glance 
• US Treasury Rate Quotes

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