Bond Etf Outflows Suggest Higher Rates Are Starting To Hurt - Latest News

Some Investors Return to Junk Bond ETFs

Falling oil prices, rising interest rates and concerns about deteriorating credit quality were among the factors that chased investors from high-yield corporate bonds and the related exchange traded f... read more

Structured Criticality

This ETF has suffered outflows all year totaling about $4.7bn as bond prices declined (entirely due to higher interest rates as ... reached the "Structured Criticality" level that would mean another " ... read more

China Is Dumping U.S. Bonds At A Record Rate

In all cases, it may suggest concerns ... abort the current rate experiment which continues to pressure yields higher around the globe, but to start thinking how to launch QE4 instead. The iShares Bar... read more

4 ETFs to Buy to Protect Against Huge Market Losses

While not all high-yield debt is at risk, if rates start to move up fast, there could be a steep sell-off in the riskier debt. Last week $0.6 billion of outflows from high-yield bond funds ... advocat... read more

Munis: The new power portfolio

That was notably higher ... fund, bond strategists suggest sticking with intermediate-term portfolios. Right now it doesn't pay to commit to long-term bonds, which aren't yielding much more than inter... read more

Stocks stage comeback with record inflows despite wilting returns - BAML

Bond funds managed relatively minute inflows of $2.4 billion this week. "Flows indicate clients positioned for higher EPS [earnings per share], higher short rates ... into equity ETFs while mutual fun... read more

Do Junk Bond Defaults Signal Trouble for 2016?

The iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF ... the spread between the rates on junk bonds and 10-year Treasuries — now at 7.03%, about 200 basis points higher than a year ago — were to continue ... read more

Leveraged Loans: Time To Get In Or Out?

As such, a leveraged loan is considered to carry a higher risk compared to a "regular" loan simply because the default rates ... loans is starting to cool off. BKLN, the biggest US ETF focused on this ... read more

The Failure of Non-Traditional Bonds in 2014

The explicit message: how or why would you be content sticking with a traditional bond fund or ETF tracking the ... by YCharts That’s not to suggest the rally in quality bonds this year is repeatable. ... read more

Ex-Fed official says rate hike won't derail growth

And you have a little bit higher interest rates, not much, but a little bit higher. So there are pressures there. And the rate on below-investment-grade bonds, in particular -- both U.S. and global -- ... read more

European ETFs See Huge Inflows

August was a rough month for global equities as concerns over higher rates and geopolitical worries ... and a firmer currency (see all the European ETFs here). It looks as if ETF investors are also st... read more

European ETFs: A Surge in Popularity?

August was a rough month for global equities as concerns over higher rates and geopolitical worries ... and a firmer currency (see all the European ETFs here). It looks as if ETF investors are also st... read more