IGBH News and Press, iShares Interest Rate Hedged Long-Term Corporate Bond From 06/08/24

2024-06-08 00:01:00 ET Summary Coming into 2024, many income investors expected falling inflation, slowing economic growth and rate cuts that would boost bond returns- a view that spurred record flows into investment-grade bonds. Despite a slow start to the year for bonds, fixed i...

2024-05-16 03:10:00 ET Summary The Fed continues to hold interest rates steady as it focuses on the totality of economic data before it begins to cut rates. Meanwhile, the markets now expect the Fed to cut rates only once toward the latter part of this year. Corporate bond spreads...

2024-05-15 16:00:00 ET Summary Right now we're in the very difficult part of the inflation cycle. When you look at equities, we think the traditional value segments of the market are going to start to perform well. We think real assets are absolutely essential within your asse...

2024-05-13 02:32:00 ET Summary While the capital markets and the media react far more to the actual inflation data, ultimately it’s inflation expectations that matter more. There is a growing awareness of the “tightness” of corporate high yield credit, which i...

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2024-05-01 12:00:00 ET Summary Stronger-than-anticipated economic data released during the first quarter led to a significant downward shift in market expectations for 2024 rate cuts. While equity markets were mostly unfazed by this change in expectations, fixed income markets exp...

2024-04-29 10:00:00 ET Summary Interest rates are now at their highest levels since the early 2000s, helping to make bonds more attractive to investors who had been sitting on the sidelines the past couple of years as bonds endured significant volatility. Even with ongoing volatil...

2024-04-29 03:34:00 ET Summary Mergers and acquisitions have been a key theme for investment grade credit thus far in 2024. The motivations behind M&A tend to fit into four buckets: 1) buying growth, 2) cost savings and scale, 3) regulatory changes and 4) industry disruption. ...

2024-04-24 04:35:54 ET Summary iShares Interest Rate Hedged Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF is worth considering for hedging interest rate risk in a bond portfolio. IGBH mitigates interest rate risk and offers exposure to long-term corporate U.S. investment-grade bonds. The fund'...

2024-04-15 08:20:00 ET Summary Investors continue to wait for clear signals as to the timing and extent of interest rate cuts. After last year’s significant progress on prices, inflation remains elevated and slow in its path toward target levels. Although the timing rem...