SPTI News and Press, SPDR® Portfolio Intermediate Term Treasury ETF From 12/06/23

2023-12-06 21:55:00 ET Summary Right now, the stock market is blowing out the 20 years from 1980 to 2000 on a specific performance metric. The last two decades have witnessed firms with a 0% dividend yield outperforming the highest yielders by a larger amount than at any time in p...

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2023-12-01 08:25:00 ET Summary Wall Street economists predict a "soft landing" or no recession in 2024, despite recessionary indicators suggesting otherwise. The yield curve inversion is a warning sign of a recession, with the un-inversion marking the start of the recession. O...

2023-11-24 07:30:00 ET Summary The bond market's obsession with the rate cycle should blind it from fiscal deficit worries. A rate-cutting cycle typically results in positive total returns right out the curve, with the best of those in longer tenors. We're expecting that for m...

2023-11-24 06:55:00 ET Summary Even though the US Treasury has taken some pressure off longer tenors by morphing new issuance towards shorter tenors, the size of the fiscal deficit still matters for the bond market. For any given Fed funds rate, it means a steeper curve from the b...

2023-11-21 09:48:00 ET Summary From the standpoint of systematic monetary policy, the Federal Funds rate remains below, not above, levels that have historically been consistent with prevailing core inflation, output, employment, and sales. Emphatically, our investment discipline i...

2023-11-10 05:58:04 ET Ransomware attacks are on the rise, posing new challenges to companies, businesses and entities in an age when nearly everything is done online. New technologies, open banking and the expansion of remote transactions have all made the task of cybersecurity even more c...

2023-11-08 22:04:42 ET Summary US long bond yields have receded, leading to a bounce in the high beta space thanks to renewed liquidity. Yet, "Credit availability" is deteriorating, and employment and PMI indicators are weakening, which does not bode well for 2024. There is a ...

2023-11-06 09:00:00 ET Summary The market decided last week that interest rates have peaked for this cycle. And if rates have peaked then all the assets that have been pressured over the last two years can finally come up for air. Whether the Fed’s rate hikes really caused ...

2023-11-03 23:00:00 ET Summary Long rates are now near 5%, resulting in mortgage rates now above 8.5% on average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage and over 7.6% on a 15-year fixed-rate mortgage. As for inflation, Chairman Powell repeatedly emphasized that progress was being made b...