VRIG News and Press, Invesco Variable Rate Investment Grade ETF From 03/16/21

Real yields of reserve currency sovereign bonds are negative and the lowest ever. Bonds have been in a 40-year bull market that has rewarded those who were long and penalized those who were short, so the bull market has produced a large number of comfortable longs who haven't gotten s...

It should be no surprise that profit-maximizing speculators will seek the best risk-adjusted returns wherever and whenever they might perceive them. While the securities lending side of the financial world can be and most often is pliable, fungible, and, at times, horrifically forgivi...

Amid ongoing debates about fiscal and monetary policy in February, global sovereign debt markets experienced a widespread sell-off for the second consecutive month. In Japan, the 10-year government bond yield climbed 11 basis points to finish at 0.16%, its highest closing point since ...

Prices in government bond markets around the world dropped this week and yields soared as investors focused ever more closely on the potential for inflation to come roaring back in the second half of the year, if not sooner. If the Fed is truly content to sit back and watch intermedia...

Bonds were selling off, stocks were selling off, commodities were rallying. What really happened last week was the market's real growth expectations improved. What investors should have learned last week is that diversification does indeed work and it works when you need it most. ...

Bond yields are rising which is okay if a rising economy is the cause. They also need to rise slowly as to not shock markets. Well, bond yields began to rise too quickly last week and investors began to panic, sending the stock market lower. The CNN Fear and Greed index is at a Ne...

While November 10 represented Pfizer's "stunning" vaccine announcement, it was also around that time jobless claims bottomed out therefore rising economic retrenchment risks. In early January, reflation was given another boost, allegedly, by the results of the Georgia Senate elections...

Despite low yields, bonds can continue to diversify risk in broad portfolios. Although the stock-bond correlation has been weak in recent decades, fixed income returns have been positive in nearly all recessions since 1952, even in periods when stock-bond correlations were positive. ...

In our view, broad, vocal support for Draghi indicates how far Europe's consensus has swung in favor of fiscal intervention. In the U.S., after losing more than 200,000 nonfarm jobs in December, less than 50,000 were recouped in January. Our base case remains an orderly normalizat...

After a dramatic year of volatility, the U.S. stock market ended 2020 at record highs. Can this momentum continue this year? ESG investments clearly outperformed in 2020. 2021 should be a year of much better cash flow for companies. For further details see: A Stock Picke...