SCHQ News and Press, Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF From 09/05/23

2023-09-05 11:30:00 ET Summary We up short-term sovereign bonds on attractive yields and downgrade credit in the long run. We stay cautious on long-term bonds even with the surge in yields. U.S. stocks recovered last week as 10-year yields slid from 16-year highs. Jobs data showed...

2023-09-05 09:05:00 ET Summary The 6-month U.S. Treasury bill is yielding just about exactly 5.5%, while the S&P 500 Index is yielding less than 1.6% - one of the greatest spreads ever recorded. The U.S. Treasury yield curve is at all-time record inversion, meaning that the sh...

2023-09-05 02:25:00 ET Summary The Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the Personal Consumption Expenditures Price Index (PCEPI) increased 0.2 percent in July. Averaging over the past five months, the PCEPI has grown at 2.16 percent annually. For three months and one month, the f...

2023-09-05 01:20:00 ET Summary The revision to Q2 GDP last week showed that real GDP rose by 2.1% annualized while the GDP deflator (a measure of inflation) rose 2% annualized. Personal consumption rose in July by 0.8%, outstripping the gain in personal income (+0.2%) and well in ...

2023-09-04 06:28:00 ET Summary U.S. GDP growth has beaten expectations and come in above its long-term trend. Prices rise in the dominant non-housing services parts of the CPI basket remain stubborn. U.S. job openings slumped to their lowest level in two-and-a-half years. ...

2023-09-01 21:52:00 ET Summary Historically, market internals have provided a fairly reliable gauge of where yields should be from a growth and inflation perspective. Bond bulls have been quick to highlight how bearish speculative positioning is towards the bond market, which is c...

2023-09-01 14:30:00 ET Summary Is the US labour market about to turn a corner? Why bond yields may keep rising. What the bond market is telling us about future rate hikes. The U.S. economy has surprised many with its resiliency, despite aggressive rate hikes by the F...

2023-09-01 00:50:00 ET Summary Shouldn't market rates be falling by now? No, not yet and we'll tell you why they remain under upward pressure. Most of it reflects US resilience; that's reflected in the market discount to where rates get cut in the future, and that discount remains...

2023-08-31 04:28:00 ET Summary US$ gold price has retraced less than half of its up-move from its Q4-2022 low. The decline in the T-Bond price over the past four months and especially over the past month was not driven by changing expectations regarding inflation or the Fed’...

2023-08-31 02:15:00 ET Summary Some idea of where equilibrium might be for interest rates is important to gauge both the stringency of monetary policy as well as the value opportunity for bonds. For investors, bond yields tend to over- and under-shoot their equilibrium in harmony ...