FSEC News and Press, Fidelity Investment Grade Securitized ETF From 11/02/21

Congress temporarily avoided a debt ceiling showdown in October. In 2011, Congress waited until the very last minute to increase the debt ceiling. There is no way to position portfolios for a U.S. default. For further details see: Debt Ceiling 2021: The Sequel

The major US equity indices moved in concert, but the big disappointment so far this year has been small caps. Energy is clearly where the action is this year. After spending years at the bottom of the tables, Natural Gas, Gasoline, and Crude Oil now lead the pack. For furth...

While the stock market (as defined by the cap-weighted S&P 500 index) is up, almost 70% of stocks are currently in an intermediate-term downtrend, all while new lows start to show up underneath the surface. More evidence is appearing that suggests inflation is becoming a problem, ...

Fixed-income markets are certainly different than they were 20 years ago—or even 10 years ago. There are many advantages to the evolution of fixed-income markets over the past decade or so. Investors are setting a high bar for their managers, and rightfully so. For fu...

Last week, Treasury bond futures reached 1.7064% in overnight trading, while the high for 2021 so far is 1.7760%. 5-year Treasury yields have long taken out their 2021 highs, and 2-year Treasury notes have tripled their yield in 2021. In general, longer-term maturities, like 10- a...

Rising rates emerged as one of Q3’s main concerns, as bond yields rose to levels not seen since earlier in the year. Latest headline inflation data is beginning to level off after the initial dramatic rise in the first half of 2021. Elevated inflation is filtering into the ...

The financial markets today are huge (certainly much bigger than at any time in history), and the hands pushing real yields down (the Federal Reserve and the ECB) are extremely strong. Interestingly, while real yields are at record lows, the supply of financial assets is at record hig...

When facing a rising-rate environment, investors who can’t stomach too much risk should limit - but not eliminate - duration, or sensitivity to interest-rate changes. Investors shouldn’t just shorten their portfolio’s duration; they should get a chunk of it from a...

The ongoing Evergrande collapse, on top of the recent flurry of regulatory pivots, has raised questions about China’s role as the world’s growth engine. Eurozone input prices are rising at the fastest rate on record. U.S. companies reported capacity constraints and d...

Investors continued to plow money into taxable (+$32.0 billion) and tax-exempt (+$4.8 billion) bond funds (including ETFs) for the month of September. For the month, the average taxable and tax-exempt fixed income mutual fund posted a 0.48% and 0.75% decline, respectively, for Septemb...