Rate cuts are coming. It may not happen until September, December, or even 2025, but market watchers agree the Fed will eventually ease policy as inflation improves. That means those cushy 5% rates on money market funds will go lower. With the outlook for bonds looking better, strategists say investors should look to fixed income to lock in higher yields and protect their portfolios against market volatility in the second half of 2024. To be clear, bonds and cash serve very different functions in portfolios. Cash will always be the safest bet f ...
Nearly two and a half years after the Federal Reserve kicked off a massive increase in interest rates, the bond market is heading in a new direction. It is widely believed that the central bank will kick off a series of interest rate cuts in September. That should be good news for bond investors. The big unknowns are how far bond yields will come down, and at what pace. Also unknown is which corners of the bond market will outperform and which will lag. That has fund managers charting different ...
Our analysts put the first-quarter performance trends for stock sectors, bonds, and funds into perspective—and look ahead with a fresh market outlook for the second quarter.
Treasury bonds and related exchange traded funds look more... Over the past month, the iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF... demand for long-term maturities. The spread between two- and 30...
Since equity-based emerging markets exchange traded funds bottomed on Feb. 3, bond funds have been admirable performers. The dollar-denominated iShares J.P. Morgan USD Emerging Markets Bond ETF (NY...
Best Bond Funds for Rising Interest Rates The bond market’s outlook in 2022 is changing due to recent and anticipated actions by the Federal Reserve (Fed), the U.S. central bank, as it...
Assets : $5.02B, Expense Ratio : 0.58%, PE Ratio : 1.62, Shares Out : 54.93M, Dividend (ttm) : $5.09, Dividend Yield : 5.57%, Ex-Dividend Date : Nov 1, 2024, Payout Ratio : 9.02%, 1-Year Return : +2.82%, Volume : 231,063, Open : 91.48, Previous Close : 91.43, Day's Range : 91.25 - 91.55, 52-Week Low : 88.70, 52-Week High : 95.32, Beta : 0.26, Holdings : 1289, Inception Date : Mar 1, 2012
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Credit investors have spent much of the year wondering when foreign demand for high-grade US corporate bonds will wane, but so far it is showing signs of strengthening as the macro outlook for the...
An intensifying bond rout is creating a "tremendously dangerous" outlook for global equities, according to Livermore Partners' CIO.