SCHP News and Press, Schwab U.S. TIPs From 04/01/22

Follow the Money is a series of brief, information-rich posts that I will publish periodically but not on a fixed schedule. After rallying for 9 of the last 11 days, the S&P 500 went from down -13% to down just -3.4%. Growth has been hit hard by the slide in tech stocks this y...

Pick any barometer of costs these days, and the story is the same: Prices are up - and in a dramatic fashion. The first thing that jumps out is the dismal performance of most asset classes during periods of low growth and high inflation - otherwise known as stagflation. A solid fo...

Treasury yields have been on the rise for three consecutive weeks, with the 10-year Treasury yield finishing Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended March 23, 2022, at 2.32% after hitting an almost four-year high of 2.38% the day before. And while historically investors genera...

The March FOMC meeting confirmed one very important issue for the money and bond markets: rates are going to continue to go up. Through the prism of rate hikes and quantitative tightening, investors are trying to determine where Treasury yields will be going in the process. Accord...

For as long as I have been writing as ETF Monkey, I've had an allocation to TIPS in my personal portfolio. Same with the ETF Reliable Retirement Portfolio. Until this point, I have always used TIP as my ETF of choice for investing in TIPS. However, a recent comment from a reader c...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the sanctions response, and the gyrations in commodity markets cast an even thicker layer of uncertainty on what already was an uncertain economic and financial market outlook before the onset of this horrific war. Despite the many unknowns, we dra...

A stock market crash is something no investor can predict with reasonable certainty. However, that doesn’t stop savvy investors from moving their money into safe havens when enough signs point toward impending downturn. When considering bond investments in a down market, it...

European stocks actually performed better than the NASDAQ last week so maybe it was positive developments in the Ukraine war that spurred the rally. The dollar index fell nearly 1% last week but is still in an uptrend across shorter time frames. What the market does on a week to w...

For the second straight month, mutual fund investors were net redeemers of fund assets, withdrawing $94.5 billion from conventional funds for February. Fixed income funds (-$32.2 billion for February) witnessed net outflows for the third month in a row while money market funds (-$34.2...

Inflation pressures were already elevated heading into 2022, and the Russia/Ukraine war is creating additional concerns. The current macro outlook has darkened. The mixture of higher inflation and lower demand adds to an already precarious policy environment. For further det...