HYLS News and Press, First Trust Tactical High Yield ETF From 12/06/23

2023-12-06 10:07:00 ET Summary Is now the time to invest in fixed income? That’s one of the biggest questions we get from clients today. The Federal Reserve’s prior rate hikes are working through the economy, as there are signs of softening in recent inflation, econo...

2023-12-04 23:50:00 ET Summary In addition to nearing its prior highs, the pattern of the S&P 500 looks a lot like a cup and handle which technicians consider to be a bullish formation. For all the weakness that we've seen in the US Treasury market over the last couple of year...

2023-12-01 01:20:00 ET Summary After the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by over five percentage points in 16 months, CFOs are increasingly focused on deleveraging, debt repayment, and bond buybacks. As borrowing costs increase, CFOs should lower their leverage targe...

2023-11-30 23:30:00 ET Summary Interest-rate hikes in the United States are on pause but may remain higher for longer with lagged effects likely to manifest in early 2024. There is renewed investor interest in fixed income as the asset class offers the potential for income and tot...

2023-11-28 22:37:04 ET Summary Federal Reserve hikes have caused yields to increase across fixed-income asset classes. High-yield bonds and bond funds offer particularly high, growing yields. An overview of four of these funds follows. High-yield corporate bond ETFs ...

2023-11-20 15:26:17 ET Summary JPMorgan Income ETF is an actively managed debt fund with a dividend yield of 6.17% and an expense ratio of 0.41%. Its hedge-fund-like strategy is extremely flexible and adaptative, which comes with two drawbacks: a lack of transparency and a high tu...

2023-11-20 09:10:00 ET Summary Nvidia, the AI chip giant, will report its fiscal Q3 '24 after the bell on Tuesday night, 11/21/23. The financial stocks - large cap - had a good week this week. The 10% gain in the S&P 500 since late October '23, has brought the S&P 500 ...

2023-11-15 13:35:00 ET Summary When looking at opportunities across fixed income, credit spreads indicate how much more an investor is being compensated for taking on the additional risk. If spreads are above their long-term average, they are referred to as wide; if they're below ...

2023-11-15 05:32:31 ET Summary SPDR Blackstone High Income ETF is an actively managed high-yield debt fund with a distribution yield of 7.67% and an expense ratio of 0.70%. The fund focuses on risk-adjusted total return and high current income, investing in high yield debt securit...

2023-11-13 19:15:00 ET Summary Bond prices fluctuated in a pretty wide range last week of about 18 basis points but the MOVE index has been rising since bond yields started rising in August 2021. There is, of course, considerable worry presently about the debt of the US government...