SPIP News and Press, SPDR® Portfolio TIPS ETF From 04/14/22

Over the past weeks, gold prices showed a remarkable resilience to the relentless rise in both nominal and real-interest rates. Gold prices were $1,829/ozt by the end of December 2021, when TIPS yields were -1.1%. Gold is pricing in slightly higher long term inflation expectations...

Does the yield curve inversion cause a recession or does it just provide a signal? Is the inversion only about expected future monetary policy? Do other factors also influence the shape of the curve, and if so, can we disentangle the various factors? There is a lot that we don’...

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has fully miscalculated the West’s response to his invasion of Ukraine. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) looks to have underestimated the underlying price pressures that have accumulated in the US economy. The developing new world order ...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index ticked slightly higher in March to an annualized 5.8% pace, fractionally above last month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors (defined below) to adjust the forecast trims GMI&#...

As the US Treasury curve approaches the point of inversion—where shorter-term yields are higher than longer-term ones—investors are taking notice. Historically, an inverted yield curve has portended a recession and weak financial markets. Given much higher yields and...

SPDR Portfolio TIPS ETF (SPIP) - $0.1980. Payable Apr 07; for shareholders of record Apr 04; ex-div Apr 01. For further details see: SPDR Portfolio TIPS ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.1980

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...