STIP News and Press, iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond From 06/06/22

The long-term bond futures reached a multi-year low in early May. An anemic bounce runs into resistance. The Fed is far behind the inflationary curve - Supply-side macroeconomic dynamics support higher rates and lower bond futures. The TLT follows the bond market higher and lo...

The Federal Reserve has a pretty precise plan for how it would like to raise its policy rate of interest over the rest of 2022. The Federal Reserve now has added a picture of how it will act to reduce the size of the Fed's portfolio of securities so as to complement the rate increases...

iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF (STIP) - $1.1096. 30-Day SEC Yield of 14.41% as of May. 31. Payable Jun 07; for shareholders of record Jun 02; ex-div Jun 01. For further details see: iShares 0-5 Year TIPS Bond ETF declares monthly distribution of $1.1096

A long-run real return is what you get over and above long-run inflation. In Europe, it's still negative. In the US, it's barely positive. Lower market yields of late have come from an easing in inflation expectations. But with real rates still so low, there is a natural pressure ...

In the same way inflation has roiled financial markets on its way up, it also has the potential to impact them on the way down, should it come down. Our view is that inflation is nearing a cyclical peak, and we expect it to begin cooling off from here. We’re keeping an eye ...

We still prefer equities over fixed income on a strategic horizon, but we moderate our stance after this year’s big market moves. Stocks bounced back on hopes the Federal Reserve can soon pause rate hikes. But we don’t expect a sustained rebound until the Fed takes a cle...

VCIT is an exchange traded fund that seeks to track the performance of the Bloomberg U.S. 5-10 Year Corporate Bond Index. The vehicle has a 6.4 years duration and has seen a lower price point as 7-year rates have risen by more than 100 bps since the beginning of March. Financial c...

IEI tracks the results of an index composed of Treasury securities, with remaining maturities between 3 and 7 years. The ETF currently sports a 4.68-years duration, and its performance is driven by the 5-year point in the treasuries curve. 5-year rates have touched their decade-lo...

The S&P 500 held the 3,800 level last week – a key Fibonacci retracement level for the technically inclined investor – thus, with falling inflation expectations, the stock market could turn friendlier quickly. In addition to the S&P 500’s retracement level...

Gold tends to become more valuable when the real interest rate is trending downward and less valuable when the real interest rate is trending upward. The only way to get an accurate read on the real U.S. interest rate trend is via the yields on Treasury Inflation Protected Securities....