SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF

JNK tracks a market-weighted index of highly liquid, high-yield, US dollar-denominated corporate bonds.

iShares MSCI EAFE ETF

First Trust Capital Strength ETF

iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

SPDR S&P Regional Banking ETF

Proshares Online Retail ETF

Invesco QQQ

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF

ETFs overall gathered about $18.5 billion capital last week, bringing year-to-date inflows of $352.6 billion, ahead of the $211.7 billion seen at this same time a year ago.

Weekly ETF Roundup: Broad U.S. Equity Tops

Principal Investment Grade Corporate Active ETF

Halloween is just over a month away, but fixed income investors are already getting spooked by high yield ETFs. With Covid-19 and a forthcoming presidential election feeding into uncertainty, will a high yield scare continue through the rest of 2020?

What’s Scaring Off High Yield ETF Investors?

Yesterday Mish talked about watching the Junk Bonds ETF (JNK) to see if the Fed would continue supporting high risk companies.  Today JNK had an inside day.

Investors Should Watch Junk Bonds While Waiting For Stimulus Bill

Markets are coming under some pressure recently, suggesting now may not be the best time to increase the risk profile through junk bonds.

JNK: Keeping A Cautious Outlook On Corporate Junk Bonds

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF

As rates continue to languish near record lows and more chase after riskier assets in search of higher returns, exchange traded fund investors are expressing a waning outlook on the fixed-income asset category. According to S3 Partners data, investors are betting over $1.5 billion against ETFs tracking bonds over the past week, with five fixed [.

ETF Investors Are Turning Against Bonds

iShares U.S. Treasury Bond ETF

iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Trust iShares 1-5 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF

It’s now clear risks in the space haven’t completely evaporated.

Easy Bond ETF Trade Jolted Awake

Today I want to highlight 3 major stock market and investing themes to watch this month (August). Many will look familiar, as I’ve been writing about them for a while now.

3 Major Investing Themes for the Rest of August

Nuveen Quality Municipal Income Fund

I don’t know why you’d try to cobble together an income stream with miserly ETFs.

2 Funds Paying You 9% That Crush The Benchmarks

With such divergence glaringly apparent in the stock market, I like to look at junk bonds. The Junk Bonds ETF NYSEARCA: JNK helps us see risk appetite.

Junk Bonds Test Important Price Resistance

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF

iShares S&P GSCI Commodity Indexed Trust

iShares TIPS Bond ETF

Vanguard FTSE Developed Markets ETF

Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets ETF

Most of the major asset classes rose last week.

Foreign Stocks In Developed Markets Led Gains Last Week

SPDR Bloomberg Convertible Securities ETF

Invesco Global Listed Private Equity ETF

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF

Extremely low yields from the government bonds dulled the appeal for the fixed-income investing.

Is 60/40 Rule Obsolete Now? 5 High-Yielding ETFs to Play

JPMorgan BetaBuilders Europe ETF

JPMorgan BetaBuilders Japan ETF

iShares Russell 1000 ETF

iShares MBS ETF

iShares Short Maturity Bond ETF

June proved to be the third best-performing month on record for the Tradeweb European-listed ETF marketplace.

Tradeweb Exchange-Traded Funds Update - June 2020

GS ETF Trust Shs Access High Yield Corp Bond Fund

No risk, no reward—it’s a simple concept to understand, but even harder to grasp, particularly after the way the coronavirus pandemic shook up investors to the point where some decided staying in cash was a better idea. Now that economies are re-opening again, investors are more apt to dial up the risk and if they [.

If You Can Mind the Volatility, High Yield ETFs Can Help

As coronavirus cases spike again, bond exchange traded fund investors are trimming their exposure to riskier high-yield assets in favor of safe-haven U.S. government bonds.

Fixed-Income Investors Dump Junk ETFs for Government Bonds

SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF

Schwab Fundamental U.S. Large Company Index ETF

SPDR Gold Trust

Schwab US TIPS ETF

Schwab Intermediate-Term US Treasury ETF

Markets took a drubbing during Lipper's fund flows week ended June 24, 2020 as investors focused on rising COVID-19 cases, increasing trade tensions, and a narrow rally in technology stocks that has been driving markets higher.

U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Fund And ETF Investors Warm To Fixed-Income Funds For The Flows Week

PGIM Active High Yield Bond ETF

The Federal Reserve’s decision to backstop high yield exchange-traded funds (ETFs) as part of its stimulus measures to help boost the bond market amid the pandemic saw bears flee the scene like Yogi Bear spotting Ranger Smith. Per a recent Bloomberg report, the bearish pressure “on exchange-traded funds that track high-yield bonds plunged as the [.

Bears Fled the Scene After Fed Backstopped High-Yield ETFs

JNK: Be Wary Of Investments That Seem Like Sure Things

ETF Battles: LQD Vs. JNK

A lot of uncertainty remains in the capital markets, which is eliciting a risk-off sentiment, but as the effects of the coronavirus start to wane, is that the time when investors should flip the risk switch back on? Some market experts feel it’s time to dial up the risk now and play to win, especially [.

Start Playing to Win When it Comes to the Bond Market

For investors looking to get exposure to high yield via exchange-traded funds (ETFs), Goldman Sachs is warning that the Federal Reserve’s move to backstop junk debt may not be as reinforced as one might think. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, the Fed opted to purchase riskier debt, including high yield bonds to help prop up the [.

Is the Fed’s Move to Bail Out High Yield All for Naught?

The Federal Reserve made a bold move to backstop high yield debt amid the coronavirus pandemic, but one byproduct that could emerge is the increasing number of zombie companies. Interest rates have been low relatively low since the 80s, spawning a rise in these zombie firms characterized by their lack of experience in the industry [.

Will Zombie Companies Result from Fed’s High Yield Backing?

Supporting credit markets, the Federal Reserve said it will begin purchasing corporate bond exchange traded funds in early May.

Federal Reserve Is Set to Support Corporate Bond ETFs

After a historic rally in the stocks during the month of April, investors appear to be expecting a pullback and favor lower risk assets.

Investors Rotate Into Bonds And Gold After A Historic Month For Stocks

High yield bond issues have been surging after the U.S. Federal Reserve decided to backstop junk debt as part of their economic stimulus efforts.

Is the High Yield Bond Bounce a Sustainable Rally?

Delta Air Lines joined the high yield bond party amid a challenging environment with less travel due to the coronavirus pandemic.  The move comes after S&P downgraded Delta debt two notches to BB from BBB-, while Fitch assigned the new bond a BB+ rating.

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