HYZD News and Press, WisdomTree Interest Rate Hedged High Yield Bond Fund From 03/09/21

Rising rates are such a problem for gold bullion that gold bullion and major gold stocks are where they were before the COVID pandemic crashed the U.S. stock market at this time last year. In other words, they have wiped out all the pandemic gains. The bid in the dollar is significant...

Last week's spike in the U.S. Treasury (UST) 10-Year yield was a not-so-subtle reminder that rate hedging remains an active consideration for the bond market investment landscape. Based on the fundamental and technical outlook, it appears as if a further rise in the UST 10-Year yield ...

Why the run-up in rates has troubled equity markets more than credit, and why we think that is poised to continue. Since the start of the fourth quarter of 2020, the U.S. 10-year yield has risen by more than 80 basis points while the spread of the ICE Bank of America U.S. Corporate BB...

The recent rise in Treasury yields has spooked the equity markets. This is obvious from the recent performance of the bond markets as compared to the stock markets. Inflation is not the cause of this rise, but rather a combination of the stimulus measures, a rebounding economy, our CO...

Interest rates around the globe are either outright negative or, in the case of the U.S., remain at historically low levels. With U.S. rates at historically low levels, investors are offered sparse income opportunities, but also little, if any, protection in the event U.S. Treasury (U...

Economic growth is returning to almost every country in the world, and almost all commodity prices are rising. The thing to worry about is the direction of fiscal policy, which will almost certainly bring us higher taxes, increased regulatory burdens, and more expensive energy. Fo...

It is my opinion, when considering both the inflation component and the credit risk component, that most bonds are not providing any real value currently. One strategy that should be considered is not buying any more bonds at present. The second is to take a careful look at your portf...

Risk assets have compressed in yield against Treasuries, so that any meaningful yield of anything has gotten wrung out of the markets. For the first time ever, yields in the High Yield markets are now less than 4.00%. In other words, you are getting paid about nothing for credit risk....

The way investors measure risk in the bond market is by looking at the spread of riskier bonds to U.S. Treasuries. The Fed's extreme intervention in financial markets is why a stock market correction, though overdue, is not coming. Companies and their stock prices can and do devia...

The world's negative-yielding debt instruments, great for governments and some corporations, are a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell" for a whole slew of investors. Bond yields are causing many of the institutional clients and individual clients difficulties. However, you can find funds w...