SCHQ News and Press, Schwab Long-Term U.S. Treasury ETF From 02/08/24

2024-02-08 04:00:00 ET Summary After the release of the January Employment Situation report, it must have felt like Groundhog Day for the U.S. Treasury market. Heading into the January release, there had been some conjecture that the annual revisions could potentially reveal a slo...

2024-02-08 03:43:00 ET Summary At the beginning of the year, the market was pricing in fairly high odds of as many as 5 interest rate cuts by the Fed this year, the first one coming in March. Now, just a month later, March appears to be off the table with the odds of a cut down to jus...

2024-02-07 11:30:00 ET Summary Will US jobs report push timeline for interest rate cuts back? How Canada's economy compares to U.S. The Fed's cautionary approach to rate cuts. Transcript Greg Bonnell: Following another red-hot US jobs report, Fed ...

2024-02-07 05:45:00 ET Summary The Fed poured cold water on a March rate cut, but the underlying message still has rates coming down. Gross domestic product growth for 2023 was above the long-term rate, which kept inflation somewhat warm. Even if the economy enjoys a soft land...

2024-02-07 03:18:00 ET Summary The recent congressional continuing resolutions have slightly dampened the extremes, but most of the extraordinary spread is still in the marketplace. In my opinion, the benefit of higher interest rates flows to the buyer of a tax-free municipal bond...

2024-02-07 00:08:00 ET Summary The decline in bond yields and policy rate expectations that closed 2023 underwent a sharp reversal, but that failed to dampen sentiment in equity markets. The pullback in Fed rate-cut expectations was amplified by Fed Chairman Jerome Powell’s...

2024-02-06 12:30:00 ET Summary The International Monetary Fund (IMF) upwardly revised its 2024 global growth forecast to 3.1% from 2.9%, largely because of a more resilient US economy and policy stimulus in China. New York Community Bank surprised markets by slashing its dividend ...

2024-02-06 12:01:00 ET Summary In the spring of 2023, the bond market rallied sharply, effectively forecasting a rate cut by the Federal Reserve. Strong economic news for fourth quarter GDP and January payrolls added to the view that growth remains resilient, and so rate cuts can ...

2024-02-06 10:45:00 ET Summary The FOMC weighed all the economic data and decided to make it clear they would most likely not cut interest rates in March. The Fed’s favorite inflation indicator, the core Personal Consumption Expenditure rate, has been under the Fed’s...

2024-02-06 09:12:00 ET Summary There were 5 Bank failures in 2023 with $548B in assets according to the FDIC – two of which sent the S&P to the lows for the year in March. China was expected to add to post-COVID reopening growth; however, the government cracked down on ...