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Matthew Tucker: Investors are spooked. They are so spooked that they are buying an asset that currently has a negative yield. What is the culprit causing so much concern? Curiously, it’s inflation. Investors appear to be so concerned about inflation Read more…
Chris Ciovacco: With polar opposite forces of money printing (inflationary) and defaults bouncing around the heads of investors, it is not surprising to see schizophrenic inflation expectations. When Treasury Inflation Protected Securities (TIPS) are moving sideways, it is indicative of an uncertain outlook for Read more…
Matt Tucker: As market yields have declined in the past year, investors have looked for new ways to build yield into their portfolios. That trend has spurred investor interest in investment grade debt, Read more…
Sam Kirtley: Pair trading is a trading strategy based on the concepts of statistical arbitrage and convergence. Typically it involves being long one security and short another. For example one may believe that Apple would outperform Microsoft, so one buys Apple and shorts Microsoft. A pair trade may also Read more…
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Wednesday was yet another range-bound day on Wall Street. Stocks opened higher, but proceeded to sell-0ff before noon, ending up basically where they started the week. Continuing uncertainty and a lack of key economic data releases makes investing in the current environment that much more Read more…
Kevin Grewal: As the US government has resorted to excessive spending measures to keep the economy from completely crumbling, many investors suggest that inflation is inevitable and is Read more…
BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) today announced that its iShares® Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) business, the world’s largest manager of ETFs, has launched two new inflation-linked funds on the NYSE Arca. The new funds are the iShares Global Inflation-Linked Bond Fund (NYSE:GTIP) and the Read more…
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