SUB News and Press, iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond From 09/09/22

Summary Investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second week in a row. Markets finished mixed after the Dow and S&P 500 posted their best one-day returns in almost a month on the last trading day of the fund-f...

Muni debt is mostly owned by tax-paying Americans, and their preferences determine the market prices of the debt. Trillions in derivatives are tied to Treasury debt structures and are part of global transactions that ignore the yield curve outlook and trade against the Treasury yield ...

Now, most recently, the Russian war with Ukraine and its shock to energy and commodity markets, at a time when inflation was already running hot, has added greatly to investor concerns. While retirement planners and long-term liability managers often need to take on duration to hedge ...

iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF ( SUB ) - $0.0742 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.69% as of July. 28. Payable Aug 05; for shareholders of record Aug 02; ex-div Aug 01. For further details see: iShares Short-Term National Muni Bond ETF declares monthly distribut...

Inventories have risen recently and there has been a lot of commentary about how this will negatively impact the economy. My brief overview of markets is that large growth stocks are still overvalued even as they led the recent rally. The sentiment about the economy is still quite...

At the end of April, Moody’s Investors Service released its annual municipal bond market snapshot, US municipal bond defaults, and recoveries, 1970-2021, with updates through 2021. Even though the average five-year municipal default rate since 2012 has been 0.1%, compared to 0....

This has been a historical year in fixed income, and municipals are no exception. Yields rose dramatically this year in anticipation of Fed moves, as the market is trying to get ahead of the Fed as the Fed is trying to tame inflation. The largest reason being outflows in the municipal...

This quarter we discuss implications for munis from investment-market declines, inflation, and a potential recession. A recession that necessitates cost cutting could see muni managers choosing between social programs or annual payments into a pension fund and raising taxes and other ...

As we enter the second half of 2022, predictions of a possible recession range widely as the key drivers of inflation shift from goods to commodities and services, notably housing. For bond investors, the sharp rise in the rate landscape has had an outsize impact across the board, wit...

Investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs) for the second consecutive week, injecting a net $8.1 billion for the Refinitiv Lipper fund flows week ended Wednesday, July 13. For the flows week, the S&P/LSTA Leverage Loan Ind...