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For example, the iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury ETF ( IEF) has a 12-month yield of 2%.
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If you want to follow the municipal bond market, you will should watch MUB and IEF.
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The iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury Bond Fund (IEF), returns 3.3% annually.
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Higher correlation leads investors to pile into the few remaining diversifying assets like the IEF and TBT ETFs and push their prices to absurd levels.
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If the price of MUB is moving higher at a faster rate than IEF (or MUB is rising and IEF is falling), then municipal bonds are outperforming the market.
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If the price of IEF is moving higher at a faster rate than MUB (or MUB is falling and IEF is rising), then municipal bonds are underperforming the market.
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And as the IEF admitted, there actually is a pretty serious discrepency between the JODI and EIA figures for Saudi crude oil prodution, a discrepency which is totally unrelated to natural gas liquids or any other factors.
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If you are worried about the direction of interest rates, an alternative to iShares Barclays 7-10 Year Treasury ( IEF) would be the SPDR Barclays Capital Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF ( ITR), or something similar to it.
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