MUNI News and Press, PIMCO Intermediate Municipal Bond Active Exchange-Traded Fund From 09/20/21

Modestly negative performance in August capped a robust summer seasonal period. Issuance exceeded expectations, resulting in less of a supply/demand imbalance than is typical. We maintain a defensive posture into the historically less favorable month of September. For furthe...

Rallying interest rates drove strong muni bond performance in July. Market dynamics remained seasonally favorable, with demand for munis broadly outpacing supply. A more defensive posture may be warranted ahead of elevated risks in the fall. For further details see: Muni...

From January 1995 through June 2021, Treasury rates rose more than half a percentage point over a two-month period at a frequency of nearly 9%. Simply put, when money sleeps, it stops working for you. As a muni investor, you need your money to work hard. For further details ...

While "a lot" of business contacts say the $600-per-week supplemental unemployment insurance benefit made it harder for them to hire, data show that the job market overall hasn't been hurt by the extra benefits, Dallas Fed President Robert Kaplan said in an interview on Bloomberg Televisio...

Article Thesis The Fed has made it clear that interest rates will remain extremely low for years, and due to the high government debt levels in the US, it seems possible that interest rates will remain at a low level for much more than a couple of years. This has a range of implications fo...

Introduction The world economy is projected to grow by a decade-low 2.9% this year and next, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said in its Economic Outlook, trimming its 2020 forecast from an estimate of 3.0% in September. - OECD sees global growth at decad...

Introduction Each month, I extract about a thousand mutual funds, exchange traded funds and closed end funds from Mutual Fund Observer, and rank them for Risk (MFO Risk, Ulcer Index, Category Performance During Recessions, Leverage, Debt Quality, Debt/Equity), Risk Adjusted Returns (MFO Rank...

In my opinion, the key to dealing with the future lies in knowing where you are, even if can't know precisely where you're going. Knowing where you are in a cycle and what that implies for the future is different from predicting the timing, extent and shape of the cyclical move. - Th...