IGLB News and Press, Shares Long-Term Corporate Bond From 01/04/21

With the exception of broadly defined commodities and US and foreign property shares, global markets posted solid gains last year. US stocks were the top 2020 performers, with the Russell 3000 Index surging 20.9% last year. US REITs saw the deepest loss for the major asset classes...

The concept of a "demographic dividend" is well-established in academic research. But the flip side of a demographic dividend is what the United States and virtually all other developed nations are beginning to experience. Unfortunately, COVID-19 probably made the situation worse ...

Broad US equities continued their momentum from Q2 following the dramatic COVID-19-driven decline earlier in the year. The S&P 500 rose 9% in Q3 after a 20% rise in Q2. Value-oriented stocks underperformed the broader market on concerns about economic fragility, the expiration of ...

VanEck partners with Moody's Analytics on two new funds, the VanEck Vectors Moody's Analytics IG Corporate Bond ETF and the VanEck Vectors Moody's Analytics BBB Corporate Bond ETF. Both funds focus on investment grade corporates. One is broad, and one is strictly in the crowded BBB sp...

Fund investors were net redeemers of money market and equity funds during the week, withdrawing $9.3 billion and $5.7 billion, respectively, while being net purchasers of taxable fixed-income funds (+$6.8 billion) and municipal bond funds (+$607 million) this week. U.S. markets finish...

"Japanification" is the process of other countries' economies becoming like that of Japan: flatlined, with little to no growth or inflation and interest rates stuck at zero indefinitely. Because of the Monetary Death Spiral process that I've described elsewhere, many countries around ...

There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. —Thomas Sowell Macroeconomic Thesis In the past, on multiple occasions, I've written about how the United States' enormous national debt burden will slow economic growth going forward. Academic studies have demonstrated that, a...

The COVID-19 crisis has impacted asset valuations, increased volatility and led to reduced liquidity in many cases. Most asset classes have been affected, and governments have stepped in to support financial operations. In this paper, we examine the effects of the crisis on the year-to-date li...

In the aftermath of the 2008 housing debacle, central banks (CBs) engaged in an interest rate reduction marathon to stimulate economic engines and the practice is still alive 12 years later. Needless to say, the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank ( FED ) built and then busted the housing bubble all on ...

Macroeconomic Thesis One of the most commonly raised critiques of my recent article, " The Monetary Death Spiral Is Accelerating ," was that the massive fiscal and central bank spending measures being carried out by various agencies of the United States federal government right now have jus...