Yields Nudge Lower After Record-High Job Openings in August
Benchmark U.S. Treasury yields nudged lower after the Labor Department revealed that the number of job openings in August hit a record…
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Investors Flee to Floating-Rate ETFs, TIPS During Latest Sell-Off
The latest market sell-off that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average lose over 1,300 points in two trading sessions caused investors to…
Stocks and Bonds Making Terrible Music Together
The latest stock sell-off appears to also be affecting the fixed-income space, as the capital markets saw outflows in some of the…
U.S. Markets Down, but Still On Top of the World YTD
The stock sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average continued Thursday after yesterday’s 800-point thrashing with more bouts of volatility in the…
Sell-Off Dampens Slightly, Dow Still Down Over 300 Points
The stock sell-off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average appeared to dampen early in Thursday’s trading session after taking an 800-point drubbing…
Stock Massacre: Dow Plummets Over 800 Points
Just two weeks after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell praised the growth of the economy and not long after the S&P 500…
Investors Flock to Short Duration Bond ETFs as Producer Prices Rise
For the month of September, the Labor Department revealed that the core producer price index (PPI) increased by 0.2%, which was in…
Dow Falls Over 300 Points Amid Tech Sell-Off
The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell over 300 points on Wednesday as tech names like Intel, Microsoft and Netflix were in the…
US Inflation Figures Hurt Chances of an Interest Rate Increase
Consumer Price Index (CPI) figures were released in the United States for the month of August. Consumer prices account for a majority…
3 Benefits of Rising Interest Rates
The U.S. economy continues to be full steam ahead like a raging locomotive backed by a strong stock market that has already…
Benchmark 10-Year Treasury Yield Surpasses 3%
The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury yield surpassed the 3% mark for the first time since early last month as data regarding consumer…
Consumer Inflation Rose At Slower Pace in August
Consumer inflation rose during the month of August albeit at a slower pace than the previous month, reflecting the first slowdown in…
Rethinking the Relationship Between Interest Rates and Inflation
On an episode of Bloomberg’s “What’d You Miss?”–Stephen Williamson, University of Western Ontario professor, discusses the relationship between interest rates and inflation.…
3 ETFs to Protect Fixed-Income Investments and Outrace Inflation
Fixed-income and inflation go hand-in-hand like termites to wood–inflation can erode the profits of fixed-income investments over time. Furthermore, the extended bull…