Photos: Keeping score: Investors’ guide to markets in 2015
Amid wild swings in financial markets this year, here’s a look at how investors are making or losing money in key stock, bond and commodity mutual fund sectors.
Mutual funds that own Treasury securities were mostly winners in the third quarter as global market jitters drove investors into government bonds, pushing yields down. The average long-term government bond fund rose 4.3% in the quarter. But a big unknown is whether longer-term interest rates will rise once the Federal Reserve begins raising short-term rates. Rising rates would depress the value of older bonds.
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