TIP News and Press, iShares TIPS Bond From 04/04/24

2024-04-04 15:40:00 ET Summary As inflation recedes from recent cyclical highs, many investors are selling their holdings of inflation-protected securities. The result? Explicit inflation protection has become unusually cheap. In our view, the right active inflation strategy s...

2024-04-04 11:00:00 ET Summary What is clear is that a number of broad-brush commodity funds are rebounding in 2024 after a down year for the asset class in 2023. In contrast with market-cap-weighted index funds for stocks, a much deeper dive is required for understanding and choo...

2024-04-02 12:25:56 ET Summary Real manufacturer's shipments (adjusted for inflation) contracted by -0.12%. The manufacturing sector of the economy continues to be weak. However, despite this fact, some inflationary pressures are beginning to emerge. The overall U.S. economy i...

2024-04-02 12:20:00 ET Summary Mounting pressures from macro megaforces point toward higher structural inflation and lower real GDP growth in the years ahead. We think higher inflation and slower economic growth will reverberate across the global fixed-income markets, shaping how ...

2024-04-02 10:30:00 ET Summary The long-run performance estimate for the Global Market Index ticked up again in March vs. the previous month. Today’s revised forecast (based on three models defined below) indicates a 6.9% annualized return for the unmanaged benchmark, which...

2024-04-01 22:02:06 ET Summary Different bonds have different characteristics, including credit quality, maturities, duration, and others. Maturities are of particular importance when interest rates are in flux, as they currently are. An analysis and comparison of short-term a...

2024-04-01 13:16:32 ET More on iShares TIPS Bond ETF How TIPS Might Perform At Financial Extremes TIP: Breakevens Back On The Rise As Fed Set To Give Up The Inflation Fight Bill Gross says 10-year Treasuries are too expensive, look at TIPS instead Seeking Alp...

2024-04-01 10:25:00 ET Summary The rally in global assets broadened in March, lifting nearly every slice of the major asset classes. The downside outlier: bonds in emerging markets. Otherwise, last month delivered a clean sweep of gains, based on a set of ETFs. Commodities and...

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...

2024-03-29 12:04:42 ET Summary Real PCE (adjusted for inflation) in February 2024 expanded by 0.43%, significantly surpassing economists' expectations of 0.10% growth. The February real personal spending figure swings the 3-month rate of personal spending growth from well below av...