You have to go back to March 2001, some 8½ years ago, to find a time when the editor of the average bond timing newsletter was more bullish now than he or she is today. And that's bad news for bonds.

Doing nothing may not be the most exciting stock market trading strategy for the month of April, but it could be the best one.

Have you been paying attention to the bond market over the past month?

Barack Obama on Tuesday becomes this countryâ??s 44th president, assuming leadership of a federal government whose finances are in a shambles.