AGG News and Press, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond From 01/15/24

2024-01-15 08:52:01 ET Summary The Treasury curve moved down 26 basis points at 2 years and down 9 basis points at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread narrowed to negative 18 basis points this week compared to negative 35 b...

2024-01-14 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets resumed their rally this week, while interest rates fell sharply after a critical slate of inflation data pointed towards a continuing "normalization" of inflation towards pre-pandemic levels. While CPI data was best characterized...

2024-01-12 10:03:09 ET Summary The 10-year Treasury note recorded a positive return in 2023, saving a 200-year record of consecutive annual declines. November and December 2023 saw significant gains in the bond market, breaking a 20-year record for the largest 2-month gain in two ...

2024-01-10 08:42:00 ET Summary The downward inflation trend has bolstered market confidence that monetary policy is sufficiently restrictive as to achieve the FOMC’s longer-run goals. Further, policymakers’ rhetoric has turned more dovish, suggesting that a critical infl...

2024-01-10 07:12:00 ET Summary We are value investors. In constructing portfolios for our clients, we seek out companies that we believe are trading in the market at significant discounts to their underlying value. These businesses must offer significant profit potential and be run by...

2024-01-09 13:25:00 ET Summary Amid slower economic growth and more benign monetary policy, we believe that this year bond prices will be driven less by inflation and central bank policy and more by economic growth dynamics. Rather than seek to play the timing of interest rate red...

2024-01-08 05:55:04 ET Summary The Treasury curve moved up 17 basis points at 2 years and up 17 basis points at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread was unchanged this week at negative 35 basis points. The probability th...

2024-01-08 04:24:36 ET Summary The BlackRock Limited Duration Income Trust specializes in providing investors with a high level of current income from low-duration securities. The fund has outperformed the Bloomberg Aggregate Bond Index over the past three years, delivering a gain...

2024-01-05 09:52:29 ET More on Markets S&P, Nasdaq, Dow tick higher after a hawkish jobs report Dividend Roundup: Johnson & Johnson, AT&T, Mastercard, PNC Financial, and more December jobs growth unexpectedly climbs, unemployment holds steady 4 st...

2024-01-05 02:00:00 ET Summary Money market funds and taxable bond funds were the only attracters of net new capital. The total number of contract signings had grown month over month in the Northwest, Midwest, and West, but contracted in the South. No equity mutual fund subgro...