AGZ News and Press, iShares Agency Bond From 05/15/24

2024-05-15 02:10:00 ET Summary In June 2022, the Federal Reserve began its program of quantitative tightening (QT) as a complementary policy to conventional interest rate hikes. On May 1, Fed Chairman Jerome Powell announced an important change to the program that seemed to attrac...

2024-05-14 15:25:00 ET Summary The overall PPI for final demand spiked by 6.4% annualized in April from March, seasonally adjusted, driven by a massive 7.0% spike. Core PPI, which excludes energy costs, spiked by 6.1% annualized in April from March, seasonally adjusted. Servic...

2024-05-14 11:50:00 ET Summary US consumer inflation data was surprisingly firm in March, raising the stakes for May 15’s April report. The year-over-year change in core CPI is expected to ease to 3.6% through April, based on the point forecast for CapitalSpectator.com ...

2024-05-14 00:55:00 ET Summary Minneapolis Fed President Neel Kashkari issued an essay saying that the recent inflation data raise questions about whether their monetary policy is restrictive enough to fully return price growth to the central bank’s 2% target rate. Kashkari...

2024-05-14 00:15:00 ET Summary While oversimplifying any formula in the financial markets tends to backfire more often than not, good inflation numbers tend to deliver new highs for the S&P 500. My thesis is that we put in a bottom in April, which should, hold with a dovish Fe...

2024-05-13 09:15:00 ET Summary We believe high nominal growth, peak rates and broadening earnings performance continue to underpin equity market performance. While slower growth and higher inflation can be seen as having some stagflation characteristics, we remain convinced that i...

2024-05-12 07:00:00 ET Summary Hotter-than-expected inflation has put the Fed on a higher for longer policy path. The CPI has been rising consistently at roughly 3.5% since summer 2022, posing a disinflationary concern. The CPI has been on a linear upward trajectory for 19 mon...

2024-05-08 12:30:00 ET Summary Dovish remarks from the Federal Reserve and a cooler-than-expected US jobs report strengthened the case for a coming interest rate cut. Are we seeing the “economic softening” needed to get inflation completely under control, or are we s...

2024-05-08 08:40:00 ET Summary This past week saw the release of a raft of important economic data which, in combination with the FOMC’s decision, have important implications for the path of interest rates through 2024. In the middle of the data releases, the FOMC met on Tu...

2024-05-08 06:30:00 ET Summary How the latest jobs report could help the Fed and interest rates. US rate cut timeline: How close are we? Why Canada's productivity is struggling. ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: W...