“To try to explain why bond yields continue to fall in this type of environment is very difficult,” said Charles Comiskey, head of Treasuries trading in New York at Bank of Nova Scotia.
It's not just a U.S. problem. Yields on Eurozone, U.K. and Japanese benchmark bonds are all close to historic lows.
Some of the red flags that may foreshadow a correction in stocks.
Volatility-starved traders may need to wait until 2018 for the spark that gets the bond market moving again.
It was a calm summer week as investors anticipated information from the U.S. Federal Reserve, The European Central Bank and elsewhere.
Even emerging markets bond funds took in money for the third straight week.
Little change on the horizon in the Fed's course: a drawn-out process of trimming its balance sheet and raising interest rates.