CMBS News and Press, iShares CMBS Bond From 01/10/24

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...

2024-01-07 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets stumbled on the first week of the new year as investors parsed employment data that gave conflicting signals on the state of the U.S. economy. Employment data showed a continued cooling in wage pressures, but the steady pace of hi...

2024-01-04 00:55:00 ET Summary U.S. home prices hit record highs in 2023, as a lack of supply outstripped any dent to demand that higher mortgage prices might have caused. The Fed may be done hiking rates, but is unlikely to aggressively cut rates in 2024, in part because of shelt...

2024-01-03 10:08:00 ET Summary The calendar year 2023 proved to be an incredible roller-coaster for U.S. fixed income. Sentiment in the money and bond markets shifted dramatically and yield levels plummeted across the board, while MBS and corporate bond spreads narrowed considerab...

2023-12-31 09:00:00 ET Summary U.S. equity markets extended a spirited year-end rally with a ninth-straight week of gains - concluding a once-gloomy year with record-highs across the major benchmarks. The dramatic shift in fortunes beginning in late October coincided with a slate ...

2023-12-28 05:45:00 ET Summary As investors prepare their portfolios for 2024, our investment professionals share insights on what to expect in their respective asset classes. Gold prices should continue to have a meaningful impact on our outlook for the miners through the end of ...

2023-12-27 01:01:00 ET Summary The average annual returns for taxable and tax-exempt funds were negative 10.2% and negative 9.12%, respectively. With only three modest and widely expected rate hikes through the first half of the year, fixed income funds got off to a strong start w...

2023-12-27 00:26:00 ET Summary The US bond market has had a rough ride for much of the past two years, but the powerful rally over the last two months suggests the worst is over. The critical factor for bond prices in the year ahead, of course, is inflation’s path. The ...

2023-12-25 02:48:22 ET Summary Wall Street alchemists worked overtime to create sophisticated structures that intermediated increasingly high-risk mortgage debt into enticing securitizations and derivative instruments. Inflating home prices ensured only more speculative interest a...