FIBR News and Press, iShares U.S. Fixed Income Balanced Risk Factor ETF From 05/02/19

Originally published May 1, 2019 As part of Merk's in-house research we regularly evaluate a consistent set of charts covering the economy, equities, fixed income, commodities and currencies. The aim is to keep our eyes open and to look through the noise of the headlines, avoiding the dist...

The Federal Reserve keeps interest rates unchanged and signals no further rate hikes. Anthony Okolie talks with Derek Burleton, Deputy Chief Economist, TD Bank Group Read more ...

By Kevin Flanagan Certainly, no one can dispute that the shift in the Federal Reserve's (Fed) monetary policy outlook has been the most noteworthy development that has occurred in the money and bond markets thus far in 2019. The problem is that this shift has only created an extra layer of...

Overview: The May Day holiday has shut most markets in Asia and Europe, making for subdued market action. Equity markets that are open, like Australia and the UK, advanced and US shares are trading higher helped by Apple's (AAPL) upbeat forecasts and sales that beat expectations. Indeed, the...

By SchiffGold Peter Schiff recently appeared on RT to talk about rising oil prices, how they relate to inflation and what it could mean for the US economy. President Trump has been pushing to limit Iranian oil exports as much as possible. Peter said the president needs to get his priorit...

Just one year ago the dollar/ euro was 1.2233. We have had a massive move during the last twelve months. We closed last night at 1.1157 which is an 8.8% strengthening of the dollar. When the dollar hit 1.1400 in mid-March, I said that the dollar had further to run and projected a move to u...

In my last post, I painted a picture of what appears to be happening around the world today and how these factors are impacting the value of the US dollar. The value of the US dollar is higher now than it was one year ago and has particularly gotten stronger over the past three months. S...

By Chris Turner , Global Head of Strategy and Head of EMEA and LATAM Research The Dollar Index has broken to a new high for the year, largely on the back of weaker growth prospects overseas. If secular stagnation fears grow and asset allocation shifts towards bonds from equities, prohibi...

Andrew Park is a senior editor at S&P LCD and is one of the foremost experts on collateralized loan obligations and the leverage loan market. Andrew also writes daily on what's going on in the collateralized loan obligations ((CLO)) market and his data is the basis for most of the rep...

Deutsche Bank (DB) put out an imprecise piece of research saying that higher debt levels mean higher government interest payments. This isn't really true because the government can technically set its interest rates at whatever it wants. For instance, there was nothing stopping the Fed from ...