
HERE IS WHAT INVESTORS ARE DOING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES AGAINST U.S. DEBT DEFAULT
By Nigam Arora & Dr. Natasha Arora To gain an edge, this is what you need to know today. Protecting Against Default Please click here for a chart of 20-year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT). Note the following: It may seem oxymoronic but big institutional investors are buying long dated Treasury bonds to protect themselves against a potential U.S. debt default. The reason long dated Treasury bonds are being bought is they went up during 2011 debt ceiling negotiations. In 2011, the U.S. credit rating was downgraded. The presumption is that if debt ceiling negotiations break down, long bonds will move higher. As a result, TLT will break






