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Assets protecting against inflation bugaboo on track to record best gains since 2011 Published: Dec. 29, 2020 at 1:58 p.m. ET By Getty Images Another year, another double-digit percentage annual gain for U.S. Treasury inflation-protected securities. That’s a rare feat for a stodgy asset class often considered the province of pensioners fearful of the ravages of higher prices for food, clothes, rent and gas. Though inflation has struggled to make a return to the U.S. eco...

Here’s why low bond market volatility won’t ‘budge from abysmal levels’ Published: Dec. 23, 2020 at 2:11 p.m. ET By MarketWatch photo illustration/iStockphoto|, St. Louis Fed Email icon Since breaking out to its highest levels in months, the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield has plodded along in a tight range, struggling to break through the significant 1% mark. The reluctance of the bond market to succumb to the hype around the ‘reflation’ trad...

Pricey stocks may yet head higher as uneven economic recovery maintains grip on U.S. David J. Lynch © Michael Nagle/Bloomberg A trader passes the front of the New York Stock Exchange on Dec. 9, 2020. (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg News) It takes more than mass death and suffering to throw Wall Street off stride. Popular Searches The coronavirus may be killing 3,000 Americans each day while lawmakers bicker over how to help the wounded U.S. economy. Yet stock prices keep poweri...