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2023-06-26 22:45:00 ET Summary The Bloomberg Municipal Bond Total Return Index (+0.33%) recorded its fourth straight weekly gain. Our fund-flows week kicked off on Thursday, June 15, with the weekly initial jobless claims data showing seasonally adjusted initial claims was 264,000...

2023-06-20 10:18:03 ET Summary LQD is the largest, most well-known investment-grade corporate bond fund in the market. USIG is a smaller fund in the same industry niche. I believe it to be better as well. An explanation as to why follows. Author's note: This article wa...

2023-06-20 09:30:00 ET Summary The data has been coming in strong enough that the Fed could have delivered a rate hike in Wednesday’s meeting, but they chose not to. In the last couple of weeks, jobless claims have not just been higher than expected claims, but we're seeing...

2023-06-19 03:40:00 ET Summary On March 31st, 2023, the S&P 500 was priced to return 2.41%/year over the next ten years. I don’t think AI will permanently increase productivity. The system should adjust and things should remain mostly the same. The estimated rate of...

2023-06-16 07:50:53 ET The financial community found themselves to be overall net buyers of fund assets which included both conventional funds and exchange traded funds for the second week in a row as investors added $19.2B of net new money to the space for the week ending on June 14th. ...

2023-06-15 22:05:00 ET Summary Investors were net purchasers of fund assets for the second consecutive week, injecting a net $19.2 billion for the LSEG Lipper fund-flows week ended June 14. Equity ETFs witnessed net inflows for the third week in four, attracting a little more than...

2023-06-15 10:52:54 ET Summary BANX has bounced back after being sold off during the banking crisis, with its NAV increasing by 2.62% in April. ETW offers a more defensive approach with a call-writing strategy and global exposure, including Europe and Asia/Pacific. PAI is a no...

2023-06-13 09:00:23 ET The pain trade for money managers is still a rally in stocks that would catch them flatfooted, according to the latest survey by BofA Securities. The June Global Fund Manager Survey of 285 panelists with $764B in assets under management found that respondents are ...

2023-06-12 22:12:00 ET Summary The US Treasury yield curve is at its most inverted since the 1980s. An inverted yield curve has been in place for five of the past six recessions. Fixed income has historically shown positive returns during recessionary periods. By M...

2023-06-10 04:20:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 44.8 billion in May, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 81%. Fixed income and commodity-based ETFs...