Investing With Rising Rates: 5 Portfolio Considerations
As central banks around the world set interest rates that strongly influence all sorts of debts, from mortgages to student loans to…
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Are High Yield Bonds Too Risky?
The SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (ITE) and SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) have seen a large increase in short…
The Fed is About to Crash The Markets Again
The Fed is about to crash the markets again. Mark Twain is reputed to have said: “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it does…
An Inside Look at Global Interest Rates
Compared to the start of the year, short-term growth and inflation expectations are lower due to weaker-than-expected consumption data and easing inflation.…
3 Reasons Why $1.3 Billion Flowed to T-Bill ETF
Outliers are making a comeback in an economy that is rewarding investors for short-term date fixed income ETFs like the SPDR Bloomberg Barclays…
3 ETFs to Invest as the Fed Tightens Policy
As the Federal Reserve continues to tighten policy, the ability to generate returns in short-dated fixed income ETFs has increased. As a result, money…
The Fed Stays the Course Under Powell
The Federal Reserve (Fed) has stayed the course under Powell after raising interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point as…
As Expected, Federal Reserve Delivers Rate Increase
As expected, the Federal Reserve (Fed) delivered its first rate increase of the year, raising the Fed Funds target a quarter point…
U.S. Inflation: A Case of High Anxiety?
There is no doubt that inflation fear has reared its ugly head early in 2018, impacting the money and bond markets in…
Calling on Convertible ETFs Thanks to Federal Reserve
The Federal Reserve raised interest rates in March and many bond market observers expect at least one more rate hike before the…
ETFs for a Dovish Fed: Asset Categories Investors Will Target
The Federal Reserve is slated to release minutes of last month’s meeting today, clarifying the central bank’s decision to stand pat on…
BlackRock: 5 Signs in the Fed Statement of a Sooner-Than-Expected Fed Rate Hike
Market observers are parsing every comment from the Federal Reserve (Fed)’s most recent statement and Fed Chair Janet Yellen’s accompanying press conference,…
BlackRock: Fed Revises Projections; Here’s what it Means for Your Money
Due to an improving economy following its previous meeting, the Fed said it will reduce its monthly mortgage and Treasury bond purchases…
Don’t Fear the Fed With These Bond ETFs
The Federal Reserve gave financial markets an early holiday treat, so to speak, by making official plans to begin tapering its quantitative…