SCHQ News and Press, Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF From 12/27/23

2023-12-27 01:31:27 ET Summary The Fed is signaling rate cuts starting next year. Interest is down on the news, and seems to have stabilized. An overview of where rates stand after the Fed pivot follows. Interest rate policy is starting to pivot, with the Federal Res...

2023-12-27 01:01:00 ET Summary The average annual returns for taxable and tax-exempt funds were negative 10.2% and negative 9.12%, respectively. With only three modest and widely expected rate hikes through the first half of the year, fixed income funds got off to a strong start w...

2023-12-27 00:26:00 ET Summary The US bond market has had a rough ride for much of the past two years, but the powerful rally over the last two months suggests the worst is over. The critical factor for bond prices in the year ahead, of course, is inflation’s path. The ...

2023-12-25 17:50:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-12-25 10:30:00 ET Summary For Q3, the consensus estimate from sell-side analysts tracking the stock market was for growth of just half a percent. Instead, the U.S. economy beat that number tenfold. As early as June, we saw year-over-year inflation in the United States that wa...

2023-12-25 10:05:00 ET Summary As 2024 comes into view, let’s take stock of the more important developments we saw through 2023 – and what they could mean moving forward. The year started out with a massive run-up in treasury yields that began in mid-2020, nearly res...

2023-12-25 08:15:00 ET Summary We have experienced a sequence of rapid and forceful rate hikes as the Covid exit occurred, to a multi-month “no change in rates” period, to the beginning of a sequence of rate cuts. The debate among market agents is now focused on how low ...

2023-12-25 04:43:00 ET Summary The past year demonstrated something we’ve always believed, namely that blockchain is not synonymous with cryptocurrencies - it is far bigger than that. As 2023 draws to a close, investors are rejoicing over the prospects of a “soft lan...

2023-12-25 02:48:22 ET Summary Wall Street alchemists worked overtime to create sophisticated structures that intermediated increasingly high-risk mortgage debt into enticing securitizations and derivative instruments. Inflating home prices ensured only more speculative interest a...

2023-12-24 03:48:00 ET Summary The rally in bonds to close out 2023 reflects the US Federal Reserve's validation of beginning a rate-cutting cycle in 2024. Despite heady expectations for bond returns in 2023, the near-consensus “bonds are back” narrative failed to de...