The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:TLT) pays a 4.8% dividend yield backed by the full faith and credit of the U.S. government. That is about as creditworthy an income source as exists ...

The put bets would be a bet on a yield spike since bond prices (value of the TLT fund) move inversely to rates.

A generation of investors have known only one thing about long-term interest rates — if you wait, yields will go lower. There’s now reason to worry that the opposite may be true. There are many charts ...