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Summary What's next for the bond market after Fed Powell's speech? Is the Fed pivot away for higher rates off the table? Outlook on inflation in Canada and the U.S. Stock markets tumbled following Fed Chainman Powell’s hawkish stance on rate rises. Gre...
Summary It is hard to determine sometimes what causes markets to move as they do. Take last Friday’s stock market selloff. The widely cited “reason” for the selloff was Jerome Powell’s speech at the Fed’s Jackson Hole Symposium. Of the major ...
The U.S. MBS agency market had another bounce-back outing in July, alternating good and bad months since the start of 2022. Real money accounts require a somewhat calmer setting, and Asian investors are quiet as the U.S. dollar continues to trounce all other currencies. Year to da...
Now, most recently, the Russian war with Ukraine and its shock to energy and commodity markets, at a time when inflation was already running hot, has added greatly to investor concerns. While retirement planners and long-term liability managers often need to take on duration to hedge ...
The S&P 500 rallied 4.3% (down 13.3% y-t-d), and the Dow rose 3.0% (down 9.6%). The Banks gained 2.1% (down 18.0%), and the Broker/Dealers recovered 4.8% (down 11.0%). The Transports advanced 5.8% (down 11.3%). Investment-grade bond funds posted outflows of $2.442 billion, whi...
Mortgage rates have climbed this year at one of the fastest paces on record. Yields on agency mortgage-backed securities have soared to 4.17% in July 2022 from 1.98% in January. The Fed’s involvement in the agency MBS market is not uniform, and certain pockets of the sector wil...
Financial markets in the first six months of 2022 broke many records, all of them bad. Both stock and bond prices declined significantly during the first six months of 2022, but at the end of that period, stock prices were still 22% higher than at the beginning of the Covid Pandemic. ...
In the second quarter, we've seen double-digit negative returns across the fixed income landscape. For corporate bonds on the investment-grade side of things, we've seen spreads tick 160. A lot of what's going on right now is just the aftermath of a pandemic that's disrupted the h...
The coming recession: Deep or shallow? Markets pricing in rate cut in 2023. Overly optimistic? Will 2023 be the rebound year for bonds? The risk of recession grows as the U.S. Fed continues its war against inflation. Michael Craig, Head of Asset Allocation, TDAM ...
Although mortgage rates have stabilized a bit, they remain at some of the highest levels since 2008 and have been heading marginally higher in the past week. Given the slight rise in rates, demand for mortgages continues to predict further weakness in upcoming home sales data. Not...
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Northern Trust’s FlexShares ® Exchange Traded Funds today announced plans to transfer the exchange listing of the FlexShares Disciplined Duration MBS Index Fund (MBSD) from Nasdaq to NYSE Arca effective on or about August 27, 2020. Current shareholders in this fund will not be re...