SHYL News and Press, Xtrackers Short Duration High Yield Bond From 06/08/24

2024-06-08 00:01:00 ET Summary Coming into 2024, many income investors expected falling inflation, slowing economic growth and rate cuts that would boost bond returns- a view that spurred record flows into investment-grade bonds. Despite a slow start to the year for bonds, fixed i...

2024-05-13 02:32:00 ET Summary While the capital markets and the media react far more to the actual inflation data, ultimately it’s inflation expectations that matter more. There is a growing awareness of the “tightness” of corporate high yield credit, which i...

2024-05-01 12:00:00 ET Summary Stronger-than-anticipated economic data released during the first quarter led to a significant downward shift in market expectations for 2024 rate cuts. While equity markets were mostly unfazed by this change in expectations, fixed income markets exp...

2024-04-30 04:30:00 ET Summary After strong performance since the fourth quarter of last year, U.S. high yield spreads remain tight. Credit spreads are about 30 or 35 basis points wider than their tights in early March. Interest rate volatility is less of an issue for high yie...

2024-04-29 10:00:00 ET Summary Interest rates are now at their highest levels since the early 2000s, helping to make bonds more attractive to investors who had been sitting on the sidelines the past couple of years as bonds endured significant volatility. Even with ongoing volatil...

2024-04-22 08:35:00 ET Summary Investors face a challenging landscape with fiscal dominance pushing bond yields and inflation, while geopolitical turmoil disrupts markets. Rising interest rates aim to curb inflation but can hurt stock valuations and bond prices. In my opinion,...

2024-04-15 08:20:00 ET Summary Investors continue to wait for clear signals as to the timing and extent of interest rate cuts. After last year’s significant progress on prices, inflation remains elevated and slow in its path toward target levels. Although the timing rem...

2024-04-10 12:00:00 ET Summary Owners’ equivalent rent has been noisy over 1Q, however, other leading inflation indicators suggest there’s OER improvement to come in 2Q. This is supportive of a continued downward trend in inflation. Unemployment claims remain low by ...

2024-04-09 14:25:00 ET Summary Bond yields are higher today than they were 20 years ago. With inflation indicators falling around the globe, the time of elevated cash rates may be drawn to a close. Yet, as global central banks appear at or near the end of a tightening cycle de...

2024-04-08 09:00:00 ET Summary Looking forward, our base case is that the Fed engineers a soft landing and starts to normalize policy rates in the second half of the year. In recent quarters, large-cap technology has outperformed in both higher and lower rate regimes. The weig...