TLT News and Press, iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF From 06/27/24

2024-06-27 09:21:52 ET Summary The Fed implemented QE in response to the 2008 GFC, intended to be temporary. Policy Normalization Plan included raising interest rates, reducing balance sheet, and transforming asset holdings. The Fed is facing challenges in returning to pre-GFC...

2024-06-27 08:30:00 ET Summary How Alex King from Cestrian Capital Research and Growth Investor Pro is thinking about the tech sector and bull market. Late money arriving and likely heading to Apple. NVIDIA stock outlook: High volatility expected, potential for further growth,...

2024-06-26 09:32:26 ET Wall Street's major market averages are looking to close out the first half of 2024 this week on a high note, as the Nasdaq Composite ( COMP:IND ), S&P 500 ( SP500 ), and Dow Jones ( DJI ) are all higher on the year by 19.1% , 15.2% , a...

2024-06-26 09:25:00 ET Summary Rates won’t come down as quickly as some had hoped, according to our CIO, William Davies, but further gains for equities are still possible this year. Heading into the second half of the year, we’re likely to see further divergence in c...

2024-06-26 02:20:00 ET Summary Growth peaked on a quarter over quarter seasonally adjusted annual rate in Q3 last year at 4.9%. One area of uncertainty is the spend rate for the IRA and CHIPs Act. While we believe the current administration will keep spending high through the elec...

2024-06-25 15:00:00 ET Summary The economy clearly has slowed since the fourth quarter of 2023. Real GDP growth was only 1.3% in the first quarter of 2024, down from 3.4% in Q4 2023. Despite the slowing economy and lack of signs of a recession, the inflation story has clearly turn...

2024-06-25 14:50:00 ET Summary The US 10-2yr Treasury yield curve has been inverted (two-year yields higher than ten-year) for 23 months since July 2022. An inversion in this spread has preceded the onset of every recession in the last 50 years by an average of 10 months. Mark...

2024-06-25 07:30:08 ET Summary The Treasury curve was up 3 basis points at 2 years and was up 5 basis points at 10 years over the last week. As a result, the current negative 2-year/10-year Treasury spread narrowed slightly to negative 45 basis points this week compared to negativ...

2024-06-25 02:40:00 ET Summary The big news last week was that the Commerce Department reported that retail sales rose by only 0.1% in May, below the analysts’ consensus estimate of 0.3%. Like the G7 conference in Italy, the recent Ukrainian peace conference in Switzerland ...

2024-06-25 01:40:00 ET Summary I am beginning to wonder what will happen in a German federal election, due no later than October 2025, if the AfD continues to rise. The German DAX and the French CAC 40 stock market indexes were closely correlated before investors got wind of the p...