AGG News and Press, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond From 05/14/24

2024-05-14 08:15:00 ET Summary Why market performance and sentiment are diverging. The growing gap between hard economic data and soft data. Why you may be losing money if you're not in the markets. The U.S. economy continues to show its resilience, but that ...

2024-05-14 07:20:00 ET Summary After seeing their third-largest weekly outflow on record, money markets have recorded three straight weeks of inflows. Mixed-assets funds was the only group to suffer outflows. Spot bitcoin ETFs saw an inflow a week after seeing their first outf...

2024-05-14 04:30:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 54.7 billion in April. Total consolidated U.S. ETF notional value traded in April reached USD 57.4 billion. As a percentage of total notional value, equities accounted for 56% ...

2024-05-13 13:12:04 ET Summary BlackRock Floating Rate Income Trust Fund is a closed-end fund that aims to generate a high level of income with less volatility than fixed-income funds. The fund has a lower yield than its peers, but also lower risk exposure due to lower levels of l...

2024-05-13 11:58:05 ET Summary The Treasury curve was up 6 basis points at 2 years and was unchanged at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread widened to negative 37 basis points this week, compared to negative 31 basis points...

2024-05-13 02:32:00 ET Summary While the capital markets and the media react far more to the actual inflation data, ultimately it’s inflation expectations that matter more. There is a growing awareness of the “tightness” of corporate high yield credit, which i...

2024-05-12 09:30:00 ET Wells Fargo argued in a recent investor note that the risks are rising that the Federal Reserve will need to hold interest rates steady in the face of stubbornly high inflation, a condition which could push the 2-year Treasury yield towards 5%.... Read the full ...

2024-05-06 14:57:53 ET Summary The Treasury curve was down 15 basis points at 2 years and was down 17 basis points at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread widened slightly to negative 31 basis points this week, compared to n...

2024-05-06 10:59:47 ET Summary The BlackRock Core Bond Trust offers a high yield of 8.57%, outperforming the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. Investment-grade bonds have struggled to provide a reasonable return over the past decade, but this particular fund has done okay in th...

2024-05-06 10:45:00 ET Summary The "value proposition" is almost nowhere to be found as the Treasury’s inverted curve make the normal "duration play" a shambles, and as the Fed doesn’t seem to be decreasing yields any day soon. The highest-yielding Treasury is the th...