BILS News and Press, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays 3-12 Month T-Bill From 08/15/23

2023-08-15 11:00:00 ET Summary The market is showing signs of weakness and lacks sustainable upside momentum. The recent sell-off has broken key moving averages, indicating a potential shift in market sentiment. The market's reaction to economic news, such as CPI data, suggest...

2023-08-11 05:28:00 ET Summary Fund flows show investors still favouring fixed income. Money Market and high interest savings instruments proving popular. New buffer and accelerator ETFs also gaining investor interest. Despite the recent run in stocks, fund flows s...

2023-08-07 18:55:00 ET Summary The stock market was down a little over 2% last week in what may be the start of a larger correction. In the 1970 recession, rates rose right until the onset of recession and hit a new high for that cycle during the recession. The employment repo...

2023-08-06 02:50:00 ET Summary Fitch Ratings downgraded the US government's credit rating to AA+ from AAA, citing the large government deficit and the standoff over the debt ceiling. The downgrade is reminiscent of the 2011 downgrade by Standard & Poor's, which led to a drop i...

2023-08-03 09:00:00 ET Summary The US money supply contracted at a slightly slower pace during the latest month for which there are monetary data. Continuing the QT program at the current rate would remove about $380B from the money supply over the remainder of this year. One ...

2023-08-02 14:01:25 ET SPDR Bloomberg 3-12 Month T-Bill ETF ( NYSEARCA: BILS ) - $0.4271 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 5.04% as of July 31. Payable Aug 07; for shareholders of record Aug 02; ex-div Aug 01. For further details see: SPDR Bloomberg 3-12 Month T-Bill ETF...

2023-08-01 00:12:00 ET Summary U.S. economy has changed over decades and become much less sensitive to interest rates. There was no such thing as financial futures or interest rate swaps to allow for the efficient hedging of interest rate risk. Financial futures, swaps, and op...

2023-07-31 19:40:00 ET Summary The economy continues to perform better than expected despite the Fed raising interest rates steadily – and fairly rapidly – over the last year. The recession calls first started last year in April when the 10-year/2-year Treasury curve...

2023-07-31 06:30:00 ET Summary We love the power of charts. Here are two charts that are important for investors today. We examine U.S. Federal tax receipts and interest payments. "A picture is worth a thousand words, but a chart is worth a thousand pictures." ...

2023-07-27 14:35:00 ET Summary In a unanimous decision, the US Federal Reserve (Fed) raised rates by 25 basis points. Fed Chair Jay Powell was emphatic that monetary policy is now restrictive and that the Fed is nearing the end of tightening. We feel that equity markets have a...