IVW News and Press, iShares S&P 500 Growth From 03/21/24

2024-03-21 14:50:00 ET Summary Fed keeps rates unchanged. US economy continues to show resilience. Is a June rate cut still in the cards for the Fed this year? ... Read the full article on Seeking Alpha For further details see: Fed Keeps Interest ...

2024-03-21 08:10:00 ET Summary Applied to the employment situation of U.S. teens, the phrase "gradually and then suddenly" is relevant because we're seeing some small changes in the trends being reported in the employment data for this demographic group. As a percentage of the ava...

2024-03-21 07:30:00 ET Summary The Federal Reserve triggered a dollar sell-off yesterday and follow-through selling was seen in Asia before profit-taking emerged. The G10 currencies are mixed ahead of the North American open. Outside of China, the large equity markets in Asia ...

2024-03-21 06:52:00 ET Summary Every part of my being knew that I could not liquidate my portfolio, but my emotions kept driving me towards the sell button. I realized that betting against the US economy and equity markets was akin to betting against the policymakers, human ingenu...

2024-03-21 01:45:00 ET Summary On Tuesday, March 19, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) raised their policy rate for the first time since 2007 by 10 bps to a range of 0 to 0.1%. We think the Fed could cut 2-3 times (0.25% each) in the back half of this year, which is in line with both market...

2024-03-21 01:20:00 ET Summary Unsurprisingly, the Fed did what was widely expected yet again and kept the Fed Funds target unchanged at the March FOMC meeting. As a result, the trading range remains at 5.25%-5.50%, still residing at a more than 20-year-high watermark. For tho...

2024-03-20 09:30:00 ET Summary The outlook for each future quarter's dividends has improved in the period from mid-November 2023 to mid-March 2024. The market turbulence would most likely take place during the upcoming quarter of 2024-Q2, which would subsequently show up in the di...

2024-03-20 07:30:00 ET Summary Tight labour markets make reducing inflation a challenge for central banks. Goods inflation has collapsed, after demand switched to services after Covid, helped by near full employment. The bear inversion of the yield curve has prevailed in 2023,...

2024-03-20 06:55:00 ET Summary Ahead of the outcome of today's FOMC meeting, no change in policy is expected, but the forward guidance, partly delivered in the updated projections, is the focus. Emerging market currencies are mostly lower. Europe's Stoxx 600 is giving back mos...

2024-03-20 05:00:00 ET Summary With the last half of March upon us, the blackout of stock buybacks threatens to reduce one of the liquidity sources supporting the bullish run this year. Between the Federal Reserve injecting massive liquidity into the financial markets and corporat...