FIBR News and Press, iShares U.S. Fixed Income Balanced Risk Factor ETF From 05/22/19

Making comments similar to Boston Fed president Eric Rosengren and Fed Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, New York Fed President John Williams doesn't see a need to adjust the central bank's benchmark interest rate just yet. More news on: Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury Portfolio ETF, iShares C...

By Gary Alexander Old economic theories and partisan political critics say that President Trump's escalated tariffs will cause soaring inflation going into next year's elections, perhaps causing a recession and hurting his re-election chances. If so, raising tariffs on $300 billion in Chin...

By Kevin Flanagan, Head of Fixed Income Strategy Yes, it's time for your final in "Curve"ology 101. While you probably thought all exams were over, alas, your finance professor said, "Not so fast." The U.S. Treasury ((UST)) yield curve has received a great deal of attention ever since th...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on May 21, 2019. [This blog post is an excerpt from a recent TSI commentary] Keynesian economic theory is useless if the aim is to understand how the world of human production and consumption works, but it is useful when attempting ...

By Justin Murray Broadly speaking, banks operate under the concept of maturity transformation. Banks take short-term - less than one year - financing vehicles, such as customer deposits, and use that to finance long-term - more than one year - returns. These returns range from the most com...

On Wednesday I was doing my usual scan of the daily investment news. After reading this article from CNBC you could have knocked me over with a feather. Here is the key excerpt: Futures trading now indicates an 80% chance of a rate cut by January 2020, according to the CME’s FedWat...

Every breath you take Every move you make Every bond you break Every step you take I'll be watching you - The Police Imagine it, money made from nothing except a keystroke, a wand waved by an "independent" central banker, a computer is some small room where some clerk hits the ...

Judging by several key economic indicators, it's reasonable to assume that inflation will remain steady at a moderate pace. US GDP growth in the first quarter quickened to a solid 3.2% increase and the labor market expanded at a strong pace in April . Later this year, the expansion will bec...

Perhaps it shouldn't come as a surprise. After all, during the first quarter of this year, several key banks announced they had had enough. Goldman Sachs (GS), Nomura (NMR), Credit Suisse (CS), as well as others, they all broadcast cuts to key operations. The FICC stuff, or bond trading to...

The U.S. and China vow to dig in their heels as simmering trade tensions between the two countries risk boiling over into an all-out trade war. Kim Parlee speaks with Scott Colbourne , Managing Director at TD Asset Management, about the potential economic impact of tit-for-tat tariffs ...