AGZ News and Press, iShares Agency Bond From 04/01/24

2024-04-01 22:02:06 ET Summary Different bonds have different characteristics, including credit quality, maturities, duration, and others. Maturities are of particular importance when interest rates are in flux, as they currently are. An analysis and comparison of short-term a...

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2024-03-30 02:45:00 ET Summary The core PCE price index, the inflation index that the Fed is focused on and refers to all the time, was revised up for January to an annualized month-to-month growth rate of 5.6%. In February, on top of those upwardly revised figures for January, th...

2024-03-29 23:30:00 ET Summary When inflation picked back up in January 2024, many commentators described it as more noise than signal. The Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI), which is the Federal Reserve’s preferred measure of inflation, grew at a contin...

2024-03-28 02:25:00 ET Summary Money Supply is a very important indicator. It helps show how tight or loose current monetary conditions are regardless of what the Fed is doing with interest rates. The decrease in Money Supply occurred in February. February was a very modest drop o...

2024-03-27 01:05:00 ET Summary The BOJ’s decision to end negative interest rates is turning out to be a “best possible scenario,” in my view, representing a vote of confidence in the Japanese economy but with extremely gentle normalization in the offing. SNB b...

2024-03-26 20:00:00 ET Summary Today, the Fed released the February money supply data, and there were no unwelcome surprises. M2 continues to shrink relative to the economy, and that's the reason inflation is likely to continue to fall. Currency in circulation, which represent...

2024-03-26 14:15:00 ET Summary We think it's more likely than not that the U.S. avoids a recession in 2024, but economic uncertainty remains high with the economy running at full capacity, household savings diminishing, the labor market slowing down, and the U.S. Treasury yield curve ...

2024-03-26 07:05:00 ET Summary We consider gold bullion and the S&P500 Index to be effectively at opposite ends of an investment seesaw. In the middle of last year, we thought that the low-$3000s for the US$ gold price was a plausible target for the first half of this year. ...

2024-03-23 03:45:00 ET Summary The implications for bonds as the Fed pledges to stay the course on rate cuts. The balancing act between anticipated rate cuts and economic strength. The Fed's steady as she goes approach to rates and inflation. ... Read the f...