IVW News and Press, iShares S&P 500 Growth From 02/08/24

2024-02-08 04:17:00 ET Summary US productivity growth accelerated sharply over the course of 2023. Financial markets have been paying close attention to various measures of inflation, wage growth, gyrations in employment and unemployment, and consumer and business confidence. Over...

2024-02-08 04:00:00 ET Summary After the release of the January Employment Situation report, it must have felt like Groundhog Day for the U.S. Treasury market. Heading into the January release, there had been some conjecture that the annual revisions could potentially reveal a slo...

2024-02-08 03:43:00 ET Summary At the beginning of the year, the market was pricing in fairly high odds of as many as 5 interest rate cuts by the Fed this year, the first one coming in March. Now, just a month later, March appears to be off the table with the odds of a cut down to jus...

2024-02-07 19:18:00 ET Summary Global output growth accelerated for a third straight month in January, according to the S&P Global PMI surveys. Financial services reported by far the strongest expansion of the major industries tracked by the global PMI, fueled in turn by resur...

2024-02-07 18:15:00 ET Summary The worldwide PMI surveys compiled by S&P Global Market Intelligence indicated a further deterioration of global trade in December, thereby extending the sequence of decline to nearly 2 years. The seasonally adjusted PMI New Export Orders Index p...

2024-02-07 06:40:00 ET Summary The dollar is trading with a slightly heavier bias. Sterling has moved back into the range that dominated since the middle of last December until the start of this week. The biggest drop in the US 10-year yield since last week's FOMC meeting (~7 ...

2024-02-07 05:45:00 ET Summary The Fed poured cold water on a March rate cut, but the underlying message still has rates coming down. Gross domestic product growth for 2023 was above the long-term rate, which kept inflation somewhat warm. Even if the economy enjoys a soft land...

2024-02-07 05:10:00 ET Summary Money supply growth fell again in December, remaining deep in negative territory after turning negative in November 2022 for the first time in 28 years. During periods of economic boom, money supply tends to grow quickly as commercial banks make more...

2024-02-07 01:53:00 ET Summary A sub-$3trn 2023 for M&A, but new year pipeline gives hope. Rising follow-on equity in 2023 signals latent appetite. Unstoppable debt capital markets hit $8.9trn for FY2023. By Lucille Jones, Senior Manager, Deals Intelligence and...

2024-02-07 01:45:00 ET Summary The prospect of a contentious election year might concern investors, but what really matters to markets is policy, not politics. Tax policy stands as one of the most immediate areas influenced by election outcomes. The election outcome often dete...