STIP News and Press, iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond From 02/18/22

Geopolitical headlines will have helped, but front-end rates have more reasons to ease back from extremes. In the US, the Fed mulling MBS sales offers an alternate tightening avenue, and in the UK, the BoE's pushback against aggressive pricing should find a more prominent platform nex...

A lot of the heavy lifting of inflation protection comes more at a corporate level. Yields and treasuries are incredibly low. To participate in a market that should be reasonable as we go forward, but also defend against the risks of inflation that all of us are facing nowadays. ...

The bond market is still in a very confused state as the government and many high-grade companies can borrow at rates that are below the rate of inflation. Furthermore, the financial markets are in so much disorder now that any "tentative" Fed actions to stem inflation will fall far s...

All assets except commodities suffered losses in January 2022. The world is concerned about inflation. It is not transitory. Fighting inflation hurts the stock market. So does not fighting. For further details see: January Investment Losses Are Just The Beginning

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index edged down in January from the previous month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors to adjust the forecast reduces GMI’s ex-ante risk premium to an annualized 5.4%. Th...

iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:STIP) - $0.3239. 30-Day SEC Yield of 5.67% as of Jan. 28. Payable Feb 07; for shareholders of record Feb 02; ex-div Feb 01. For further details see: iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $0.3239

With the market experiencing heightened volatility, investors and analysts would benefit from paying less attention to media noise and more to concrete leading indicators. No asset can perfectly predict stocks, but bonds are a great starting point since they're less prone to emotion-l...

Though the iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF’s TTM dividend yield of 4.18% is lower than the core inflation rate, it still makes the cut for a certain investor. Investors sitting on surplus cash or income investors who are happy with yields that fall a little short of the core inf...

Popular measures of inflation such as the CPI and the PPI are backward-looking, but the financial markets are always trying to look forward. An implication is that prices in the financial markets are influenced to a far greater degree by changes in the expected future CPI (inflation e...

Per the Fed’s November 2021 estimates for Industrial Production in the United States, American domestic crude and natural gas output continues to be constrained. And not by a little. Compared to the prior peak way back almost two years ago, the amount of overall energy pulled o...