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iShares Barclays 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

5/24/2012, 4:46 AM ET
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  • Wednesday 4:45 PM It's got to be some sort of bottom (or top depending on point of view) when bond fund managers hit the WSJ en masse to talk about how they've cut exposure to Europe and bulked up their holdings of "safe" Treasurys.
    Comment!
    [U.S. Economy, Global & FX]
  • Wednesday 11:26 AM Today's decline puts the S&P red on a Y/Y basis, -1.1% vs. +29.6% for everyone's favorite hated asset class (TLT). SPY is +4% YTD, but being threatened by Treasurys, +2.4%. On this day in 2000, the S&P opened 7% higher than its current level, notes Pattern Traders.
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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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    [Global & FX]
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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  • The Dow Industrial Average Tested My Annual Value Level At 12,312.
    Wed, May 23 • Richard Suttmeier • Comment!
  • The NASDAQ Failed At My Weekly Risky Level At 2866 On Tuesday.
    Tue, May 22 • Richard Suttmeier • Comment!
  • Correction Ahead For ISHARES Barclays 20+ Yr Treas (NYSE: TLT)
    Tue, May 22 • TimerFrank • Comment!
  • I Sold Everything Today And I’m Now 100% Cash. The Reasons For This....
    Tue, May 22 • Garfield23 • Comment!
  • Tuesday, May 22, 2012 - Short Term Update - Building A Long Position
    Tue, May 22 • Bill L. • Comment!
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TLT Description
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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