Bonds

Why would any investor want bond exposure when stocks continue to rise higher and many dividend payers offer superior yields? CNBC's Jim Cramer has a simple answer: Stocks are intended for capital appreciation, turning "money into more money." On the other hand, bonds are intended...

One of the primary selling points with exchange-traded funds has been and continues to be low fees. In many cases, index funds and ETFs offer expense ratios that are well below those offered by competing actively managed mutual funds, a trait that matters, particularly to long-term investors....

A bond is an asset class meant for those looking for a relatively safer investment avenue. Usually, an investor adds bonds to his portfolio to mitigate any loss stemming from a decline in equities. As always, with less risk comes fewer returns. Therefore, returns from bonds most often trail the...

As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...

With so many investors applying environmental, social and governance principles to equity investments, it was only a matter of time before the bond universe got in on the act. A new fixed income exchange-traded fund, the VanEck Vectors Green Bond ETF (NYSE: GRNB), allows bond investors to emphasize...

Fixed-income exchange-traded funds set a blistering pace of asset gathering in the first half of 2017, easily positioning the asset class to top 2016's record inflows. Bond ETFs' torrid asset-gathering acumen this year comes even as the Federal Reserve has raised interest rates twice with...

With the S&P 500 trading within a stone’s throw of all-time highs and Goldman Sachs recently drawing calculated comparisons between leading tech stocks today to those leading the dot-com bubble in 2000, investors are growing increasingly concerned that the stock market may once again be...

Fifteen years ago today, Barclays PLC (ADR) (NYSE: BCS) entered the new world of exchange traded funds which focuses on bonds, CNBC's Bob Pisani reported. Fast forward to today, there are nearly 1,000 different bond ETFs in existence that hold a collective $700 billion in assets, $500 billion...

There may not be a cure for the summertime blues, but the exchange-traded funds industry is making things interesting with a spate of new product launches. Dispelling the notion that July is a slow, uneventful time on Wall Street, new ETF launches topped double digits last week. Many of these new...

The smart beta phenomenon is starting to make its way to the world of the fixed income exchange traded funds just as bond ETFs are packing on billions of dollars in new assets. In fact, bond ETFs gathered $70 billion in the first half of 2017, putting the asset class well ahead of the record pace...

BlackRock Inc. (NYSE: BLK), parent company of iShares, the world's largest issuer of exchange-traded funds, bolstered its fixed-income footprint Thursday with the debut of four new bond funds. Two of those new products are smart beta funds while the other pair focus on environmental, social and...

Tuesday July 11: Five things the markets are talking about Capital markets continue to watch for cues on monetary policy. Questions on the U.S inflation outlook are certain to be front and center for Fed head Janet Yellen tomorrow – she is due to testify on the semi-annual Monetary Policy...

U.S. job growth got back on track in June, with a solid tally washing away the bad taste left by a weak May report. June payrolls jumped 222,000, the government said, easily surpassing Wall Street analysts’ consensus expectations for just around 170,000. Growth was strong through a number of...

Since the start of 2017, there’s been more price volatility among companies in the financial sector. Despite the roller-coaster ride in some of these stocks, the S&P 500 Financial Select Sector Index (IXM) is still outperforming the S&P 500 (SPX) over the past year, up just under 33%...

Geopolitics charged back toward center court early Thursday as market participants eyed developments in North Korea. Tensions rose after North Korea launched a missile several days ago, and stocks fell in pre-market trading as overseas markets came under pressure. President Trump is in Europe...