VABS News and Press, Virtus Newfleet ABS/MBS ETF From 01/12/24

2024-01-12 02:25:00 ET Summary Prospective home buyers face high prices and elevated borrowing costs, while homeowners refrain from listing their properties. As global central banks raised interest rates to tame inflation, home prices have cooled relative to the start of the hikin...

2024-01-09 13:25:00 ET Summary Amid slower economic growth and more benign monetary policy, we believe that this year bond prices will be driven less by inflation and central bank policy and more by economic growth dynamics. Rather than seek to play the timing of interest rate red...

2024-01-09 09:00:00 ET Summary New homes became more unaffordable for the typical American household in November 2023. Median household income was $76,791, which was up from October 2023's initial estimate of $76,588. We already know the average interest rate on a conventional...

2024-01-08 22:35:00 ET Summary Many months ago it became abundantly clear that the Fed had extinguished the inflation fires that were stoked in 2020-21, and therefore lower interest rates were called for. More recently, we see that the economy has lost a lot of its forward momentu...

2024-01-08 18:50:00 ET Summary No economist’s work is more germane to Issues 2024 than the brilliant Minsky. The hedge fund industry had surpassed $500 billion by 2001, up from about $35 billion to begin the nineties. Global markets wasted no time signaling 2024 liquidi...

2024-01-04 00:55:00 ET Summary U.S. home prices hit record highs in 2023, as a lack of supply outstripped any dent to demand that higher mortgage prices might have caused. The Fed may be done hiking rates, but is unlikely to aggressively cut rates in 2024, in part because of shelt...

2024-01-03 10:08:00 ET Summary The calendar year 2023 proved to be an incredible roller-coaster for U.S. fixed income. Sentiment in the money and bond markets shifted dramatically and yield levels plummeted across the board, while MBS and corporate bond spreads narrowed considerab...

2024-01-03 02:45:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2023-12-31 08:00:00 ET Summary This 2023 Year in Review is focused on the riveting “Year of Treasury Debt, Money Market Fund Intermediation, Repos and the ‘Basis Trade’." But by their nature, markets are prone to speculative excess and boom and bust dynamics. ...

2023-12-25 02:48:22 ET Summary Wall Street alchemists worked overtime to create sophisticated structures that intermediated increasingly high-risk mortgage debt into enticing securitizations and derivative instruments. Inflating home prices ensured only more speculative interest a...