USFR News and Press, WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund From 04/12/23

2023-04-12 03:34:54 ET Summary USFR invests in floating-rate treasury notes. These are treasuries with variable rates of interest, benchmarked to 3M t-bills. They perform similarly to t-bills but yield a bit more. An overview of USFR follows. Author's note: Thi...

2023-04-07 02:56:48 ET Summary MINT attempts to provide better than cash returns with the assumption of some credit risk. It has a 30-Day SEC yield of 5.0%. With T-bills currently yielding 4.8%, the extra yield pick-up from the MINT ETF may not be worth it for the credit risk ...

2023-04-07 00:56:14 ET Summary I'm reviewing my February and March results in this piece. My passive income stream grew by 22.63% in February and by 46.87% in March. Due to rising rates, during 2023 I've added exposure to fixed income in my portfolio for the first time. ...

2023-03-31 12:33:20 ET Summary USFR provides exposure to floating rate treasury notes. It has an annualized 4.7% distribution yield. It's a no-brainer to invest excess cash into 3-month T-bills that provide 13x the interest income than the average bank deposit account. USF...

2023-03-27 10:00:16 ET WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury Fund ( NYSEARCA: USFR ) - $0.1970 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 0.05% as of Mar. 24. Payable Mar 30; for shareholders of record Mar 28; ex-div Mar 27. For further details see: WisdomTree Floating Rate Treasury ...

2023-03-22 23:31:00 ET Summary For the second meeting in a row, the Fed implemented a 25 basis point rate hike, bringing the new Fed Funds trading range to 4.75%–5%. As of this writing, the implied probability for Fed Funds Futures looks for a rate cut during the summer. ...

Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 57.9 billion in January, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 82%. Equity and fixed income ETFs saw net buying in January, with &...

Summary The UST market may have reacted positively to Chairman Powell’s post-FOMC meeting presser last week, but I never really thought the Fed outlook had changed all that much. Well, now that the money and bond markets are faced with that unexpected labor market setting, perhap...

Summary Floating rate securities have rewarded investors; not only with higher income but by also protecting them from losses on their invested capital. Interest rates are looking like they are nearing a top, at least in the short-term. It might be time for investors to redeploy som...

Summary TFLO is a solid choice for a rising-rate environment. It sticks to US Treasuries, avoiding "credit risk." This is a critical differentiator between the ETFs in this peer group that I like, and those I consider more risky. Short-term bond funds shouldn't be risky. But credit ...