KORP News and Press, American Century Diversified Corporate Bond From 04/09/24

2024-04-09 14:25:00 ET Summary Bond yields are higher today than they were 20 years ago. With inflation indicators falling around the globe, the time of elevated cash rates may be drawn to a close. Yet, as global central banks appear at or near the end of a tightening cycle de...

2024-04-08 09:00:00 ET Summary Looking forward, our base case is that the Fed engineers a soft landing and starts to normalize policy rates in the second half of the year. In recent quarters, large-cap technology has outperformed in both higher and lower rate regimes. The weig...

2024-04-03 03:20:00 ET Summary After a sharp decline in yield during Q4 2023, Treasury yields rose during Q1 2024. We experienced significant increases in 10- and 30-year Treasuries, as they rose 31 bps to 4.19% and 30.6 bps to 4.336%, respectively. Spreads on investment-grade...

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2024-04-02 07:36:00 ET Summary Markets continue to experience heightened volatility as participants pay close attention to every new economic data point, trying to divine the timing of the first central bank rate cuts. But investors who are overly focused on data surprises may los...

2024-04-01 22:02:06 ET Summary Different bonds have different characteristics, including credit quality, maturities, duration, and others. Maturities are of particular importance when interest rates are in flux, as they currently are. An analysis and comparison of short-term a...

2024-04-01 08:00:00 ET Summary Energy stocks were the leaders as oil prices rose strongly in the quarter, lower crude oil demand being another consensus opinion taken out behind the woodshed during the first three months of the year. Digging down to the industry level, homebuilder...

2024-03-27 06:45:00 ET Summary The major stock market indices in the S&P 500 and Nasdaq are pricing in a significant rebound in growth throughout 2024. However, the areas of the market which are most forward-looking (think tech, Mag 7, etc.) are looking increasingly priced to ...

2024-03-25 08:20:00 ET Summary The dollar was up a little more than 1% last week and the short-term trend is on the cusp of changing. Stocks, large and small, had a good week as bonds rallied in the wake of the FOMC meeting. The rally last week was broad based with 10 of 11 ec...

2024-03-19 01:45:00 ET Summary Companies are taking advantage of strong investor demand in the investment grade credit market. In just the first two months of 2024, we’ve seen nearly 200 companies issue roughly $380 billion of new bonds in the U.S. investment grade credit p...