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2024-07-18 12:11:00 ET Summary When you think about high quality fixed income, in particular, the starting yield is usually a reasonable floor on what you'll earn over a multi-year period. Inflation volatility is decreasing, providing opportunities for investors to benefit from po...

2024-07-18 10:53:08 ET Vanguard believes that interest rate cuts from the Federal Reserve may not be right around the corner, as wage growth in the labor market continues to remain strong.... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Fed rate cuts aren&...

2024-07-18 10:05:00 ET Summary Compared with US bonds, global bonds hedged to the US dollar have historically been less volatile and generated higher risk-adjusted returns. Over the past 40 years, hedged global bonds have captured 86% of gains when US bonds rallied. After year...

2024-07-16 13:58:00 ET Summary Why markets are focusing more on geopolitics than central banks now. Markets remain resilient, but investors appear to be more interested on sure bets now. Why this has become an active manager's market. Equity markets have rema...

2024-07-15 11:46:30 ET Summary The Treasury curve was down 15 basis points at 2 years and was down 10 basis points at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread narrowed to negative 27 basis points this week compared to negative 3...

2024-07-15 09:40:43 ET The popular yield curve between the U.S. 2 Year Treasury yield ( US2Y ) and the U.S. 10 Year Treasury yield ( US10Y ) remains inverted but the curve between the U.S. 2 Year Treasury yield ( US2Y ) and the U.S. 30 Year Treasury yield ( US30Y ) has just ...

2024-07-15 05:15:11 ET Summary Calamos Convertible Opportunities and Income Fund aims to provide high current income through convertible securities, outperforming investment-grade bonds year-to-date. The Fund's yield is reasonable at 9.61%, which beats the indices but is below som...

2024-07-14 10:40:37 ET Summary LMP Capital and Income Fund offers high current income from equities with an 8.75% yield, higher than most market indices. The fund invests in equities, providing inflation protection, but its yield is lower compared to peers in the Hybrid-Global All...

2024-07-12 11:22:06 ET When will the Federal Reserve announce its first interest rate cut? This might be the biggest question on Wall Street at the moment, and responders who were asked the same question in Seeking Alpha's July Sentiment Survey saw some placing bets as early as July whi...

2024-07-11 09:23:50 ET As the latest Consumer Price Index report showed that inflation levels cooled in the month of June, it has sent ripples through the Treasury market on Thursday as yields took a noticeable step lower.... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For furth...