STIP News and Press, iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond From 04/01/24

2024-04-01 08:00:00 ET Summary Energy stocks were the leaders as oil prices rose strongly in the quarter, lower crude oil demand being another consensus opinion taken out behind the woodshed during the first three months of the year. Digging down to the industry level, homebuilder...

2024-03-27 10:40:00 ET Summary The bond market has struggled to fully recover from the Federal Reserve’s aggressive run of interest rate hikes in 2022-2023, but pockets of strength remain conspicuous. The headwind for bonds generally is closely linked to ongoing uncertainty...

2024-03-15 15:26:48 ET Summary STIP offers exposure to U.S. short-term TIPS, which currently delivers attractive yields. The fund could provide reasonable gains amid inflation and interest rate uncertainty. I see investors in the fund looking at up to a 5% return in the next 1...

2024-03-12 02:52:36 ET Summary iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF is a TIPS portfolio that allows speculators to speculate on medium-term macroeconomic conditions. The Fund's performance is influenced by changes in short-term real yield expectations, rate policy, and inflation dynamic...

2024-03-05 10:24:44 ET Summary Inflation expectations have risen over recent months, particularly at the 2-year horizon, and are set to intensify as the Fed sides with reducing debt servicing costs over fighting inflation. The Fed may be forced to restart Quantitative Easing to pr...

2024-03-05 08:38:00 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...

2024-02-23 18:20:00 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...

2024-02-13 22:57:00 ET Summary One of the issues of an interest rate focussed blog is that bond markets can settle into rather uneventful extended range trading dynamics. The 10-year breakeven (top panel) has settled into a trading range after a certain amount of excitement around...

2024-02-12 14:35:00 ET Summary Modest gains in some corners of fixed income contrast with sharp losses elsewhere for year-to-date results with the broadly defined US bond market. Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund ETF Shares, which tracks a benchmark that's widely followed as a...

2024-01-24 11:29:00 ET Summary Many investors remain overweight cash, but markets have begun to price for a substantial decline in short-term interest rates. The Asset Allocation Committee (“the AAC”) therefore thinks it is time to deploy liquidity, locking in bond y...