PLW News and Press, Invesco 1-30 Laddered Treasury ETF From 04/03/23

2023-04-03 10:45:00 ET Summary The panic brought on by the failure of SVB, Signature, and the shotgun wedding between UBS and Credit Suisse has not produced a financial crisis yet. The bad news is that it could be the proverbial straw that breaks the camel’s back for North Amer...

2023-04-03 04:00:00 ET Summary Money fund assets are commonly viewed as a system liquidity buffer, with some of this cash inevitably heading to the stock market. While the stock market might appear exceptionally resilient, the system is acutely fragile. Markets are in a highly...

2023-04-02 04:50:00 ET Summary We’ve talked a lot over the years about the shape of the yield curve, how that is a market signal, how that is telling us something about the future, about potential asset market returns. What’s our thoughts? US debt is considered the r...

2023-04-01 07:29:00 ET Summary Compared to February a year ago, consumer spending, adjusted for inflation, rose by 2.5%. This is solid growth. Consumers have been outspending inflation, largely due to the strength in spending on services while durable goods spending growth is stil...

2023-04-01 05:31:00 ET Summary The Fed added a gargantuan sum to its balance sheet in March, netting an increase of $324B. As the Fed defines it, the balance sheet increase in March was not QE because it did not buy Treasuries. The inverted yield curve is the clearest sign a r...

2023-04-01 02:15:00 ET Summary As the Fed tightens monetary policy, a banking crisis is historically the first evidence that something was breaking. Historically, once the Fed opens dollar swap lines, further monetary accommodations follow from rate cuts to “quantitative ea...

2023-03-31 03:00:00 ET Summary The world would be a lot easier for central bankers if things moved in a straight line. China has opened much more or has reopened much more rapidly than we would’ve expected. We’re pretty optimistic about what we think fixed-income...

2023-03-30 23:27:42 ET Summary The Fed lost money in the 4th quarter for the first time in 107 years.  The loss was -$15.8 billion. The loss was due to the asset/liability match on the Fed's balance sheet where they hold fixed rate assets funded by variable rate liabilities. ...

2023-03-30 13:15:00 ET Summary The bond market saw the US Treasury close the quarter with unprecedented volatility, spurred by the banking crises that began on March 9th. The volatility since the Federal Reserve stepped in and insured Silicon Valley Bank depositors on March 10th&#...

2023-03-29 13:25:00 ET Summary The economy continued to grow in March, with inflation still unacceptably high, and the Federal Reserve tightening further. A solid job market is the most important factor for consumer spending. Despite this, February retail sales dipped by 0.4 perce...