Sunrise For Savers

June 22, 2022 by Staff

In the first half of 2022, the bull market in bond prices that had been running hard since 1982 fell to its knees. Since January, the Bloomberg Barclay’s US Aggregate Bond Index dropped 8.8%, its biggest decline in 4 decades. The major driver: investor anxiety that the Federal Reserve’s plan to fight inflation by raising interest rates would hurt bond prices. Higher interest rates typically mean lower bond prices and higher bond yields.

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Originally Posted at Advisor Magazine on June 13, 2022 by Staff.