Kathy Jones
Kathy Jones is Managing Director and Chief Fixed Income Strategist for the Schwab Center for Financial Research. She is responsible for interest rate and currency analysis as well as fixed income education for Schwab clients and the public. She cohosts Schwab's On Investing podcast.
Markets and Economy
On Investing
What's new
Liz Ann Sonders and Paul Hickey of Bespoke Investment Group discuss the pros and cons in the current market environment.
Markets and Economy
On Investing
What's new
Kathy Jones and Liz Ann Sonders examine the current rate-cutting environment in the context of previous economic cycles.
Government Policy
What is it
Onward Archive
What the Fed's monetary-policy tools signal about the market.
Bonds
What should I do
Onward Archive
High-yield bond issuers face a wall of maturity debt over the next four years. Could it spell trouble for the high-yield bond market?
What's new
Markets and Economy
Market Outlook
Bouts of volatility may continue in the second half of 2025 as bond market investors navigate evolving tariff policy, U.S. government debt, and economic uncertainty.
Bond Insights
The latest perspective on the bond market from the Schwab Center for Financial Research, including a deep-dive on corporate and municipal bond markets.