iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF

TLT tracks a market-weighted index of debt issued by the US Treasury with remaining maturities of 20 years or more.

iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF

The Market Pinball Wizard Avi Gilburt discusses how market forces influence the Fed's decisions. Predicting a sizable decline in the DXY in the second half of 2024 followed by a multi-year rally.

Sentiment Leads The Market; The Fed Follows

iShares 7-10 Year Treasury Bond ETF

iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF

This article looks at a long-term perspective on Treasury yields. The chart below shows the 10-year constant-maturity yield since 1962 along with the Fed funds rate (FFR) and inflation.

Treasury Yields: A Long-Term Perspective – July 2024

iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF

YieldMax COIN Option Income Strategy ETF

Calamos S&P 500 Structured Alt Protection ETF-August

Invesco DB Agriculture Fund

Eaton Vance Floating-Rate ETF

VanEck Junior Gold Miners ETF

iShares iBoxx High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares MSCI Global Gold Miners ETF

Amplify Junior Silver Miners ETF

 SPDR Blackstone Senior Loan ETF

Yieldmax Tsla Option Income Etf

United States Natural Gas Fund LP

Global X Uranium ETF

SPDR S&P Biotech ETF

Hello! Bonds seemed more appealing to ETF investors than ever before in July, based on flow data from State Street. This week's ETF Wrap looks at what's driving investors' appetite for fixed income lately, and where their money flowed within fixed income.

Bond ETFs attract record flows in July as investors position for Fed rate cuts

AvalonBay Communities

EPR Properties

Federal Realty Investment Trust

Prologis

SBA Communications

Vanguard Real Estate ETF

Treasuries offer higher yields than REITs. But REITs are still much better investments. I explain why and highlight some of our top picks.

Why REITs Are Far Better Investments Than Treasuries

iShares Core S&P 500 ETF

Invesco S&P 500 Equal Weight ETF

SPDR Portfolio S&P 500 ETF

SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust

Vanguard S&P 500 ETF

For the first time in over three months, the S&P 500 fell for a second straight week as it finished down 0.83% from last Friday. The index is currently up 16.10% year to date and has recorded a new all-time high 38 times this year.

S&P 500 Snapshot: Index Falls for Second Straight Week

Schwab US Dividend Equity ETF

Vanguard Total World Stock ETF

Most working people need to save more for retirement. Investing is a great tool to accomplish this.

Want $1 Million in Retirement? 4 ETFs to Buy Now and Hold for Decades

Newmont Mining

Avi Gilburt provides technical context on market rally, recommends Treasury ETFs like TLT for trade, and discusses how the Fed follows the market. Metals are setting up for a strong second half of 2024, with potential for silver to see a parabolic rally.

The Top We Strike Could Be A Very Long Term Market Top - Avi Gilburt

The S&P 500 fell 2.0% this week, its largest weekly drop since April. The index is currently up 16.07% year to date and has recorded a new all-time high 38 times this year.

S&P 500 Snapshot: Taking a Breather

The yield on the 10-year note ended July 19, 2024 at 4.25%, the 2-year note ended at 4.49%, and the 30-year at 4.45%. Here is a table showing the yields' highs and lows and the FFR since 2007.

Treasury Yields Snapshot: July 19, 2024

Invesco BulletShares 2034 Corporate Bond ETF

Panagram Bbb-B Clo Etf

SPDR Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF

Schwab Short-Term US Treasury ETF

WisdomTree Bloomberg Floating Rate Treasury Fund

Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond ETF

In the first half of 2024, fixed income ETFs represented 29% of the U.S. industry's flows. This is encouraging as the asset category represents just 18% of the asset base.

Fixed Income ETFs Support Range of Advisor Objectives

Schwab Long-Term US Treasury ETF

Schwab Intermediate-Term US Treasury ETF

SPDR Portfolio Long Term Treasury ETF

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF

Vanguard Intermediate-Term Treasury ETF

Vanguard Long-Term Treasury ETF

Investors took refuge in short-term Treasury bonds throughout 2023, where they reaped the rewards of higher-yielding money markets. Meanwhile, longer duration Treasuries have been mired in a bear market since 2020 but could finally start to see a reversal of fortune.

Going Longer: Deeper Rotation Into Duration?

The yield on the 10-year note ended July 12, 2024 at 4.18%, the 2-year note ended at 4.45%, and the 30-year at 4.39%. Here is a table showing the yields' highs and lows and the FFR since 2007.

Treasury Yields Snapshot: July 12, 2024

The S&P 500 posted a near-perfect week, with gains every day except Thursday. The index has now moved higher eight of its last nine trading days.

S&P 500 Snapshot: A Near-Perfect Week

iShares National Muni Bond ETF

Invesco Russell 1000 Dynamic Multifactor ETF

Invesco QQQ

During LSEG Lipper's fund-flows week that ended July 11, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the tenth week in 12, adding a net $6.5 billion. This past week, money market funds (+$4.3 billion), taxable bond funds (+$3.4 billion), tax-exempt bond funds (+$775 million), and alternative investments funds (+$640 million) attracted inflows. Equity funds (-$2.3 billion), mixed-assets funds (-$226 million), and commodities funds (-$37 million were the only groups to see outflows.

U.S. Weekly Fund Flows Insight Report: General U.S. Treasury ETFs Take In $1.4 Billion, Eleventh Consecutive Weekly Inflow

iShares 5-10 Year Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Short Treasury Bond ETF

SPDR Portfolio Intermediate Term Corporate Bond ETF

iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF

Taking on credit risk but not interest rate risk has been relatively rewarding to ETF advisors and investors thus far in 2024. The iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (USHY) had a year-to-date total return of 3.6% as of July 8.

What Advisors Find Appealing in Fixed Income for 2H

Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF

ETFs across various categories pulled in $11.3 billion in capital last week, pushing the year-to-date inflows to $406.1 billion.

5 ETFs That Investors Loved the Most Last Week

Investors have been pouring into bond funds this year as interest-rate cuts begin trickling out from global central banks.

Bond funds raked in nearly $400 billion in the first half of 2024

The S&P 500 kicked off the second half of the year with a new record high. The index is currently up 17.38% year to date and has recorded a new all-time high 34 times this year.

S&P 500 Snapshot: New Record High to Kick Off Second Half

iShares PHLX Semiconductor ETF

SPDR Portfolio High Yield Bond ETF

iShares TIPS Bond ETF

During LSEG Lipper's fund flows week that ended June 26, 2024, investors were overall net purchasers of fund assets for the eighth week in 10, adding a net $14.3 billion. Both active and passive fixed income funds saw inflows. Passively managed fixed income funds have recorded four consecutive weekly inflows. Municipal bond conventional funds returned a negative 0.27% over the fund flows week, giving the subgroup its first weekly loss in four.

U.S. Weekly Fund Flows Insight Report: Equity ETFs Attract $20.9 Billion, Largest Weekly Intake Of 2024

iShares Russell 2000 ETF

Energy Select Sector SPDR Fund

Most of the market attention remains with the technology sector today, where all of 2024 has been centered around every stock related to artificial intelligence, particularly those in the chip and semiconductor space. When reading this, most investors probably thought of NVIDIA Co. NASDAQ: NVDA and other names in that space, but that wave could soon be over.

Savvy Investors' Rate Cut Portfolio: Bonds, Small Caps, Energy

Statistically, one of the most bullish days of the year, July 1st was rather surprising. Our family of stock market ETFs was not so happy on Monday.

What Is Happening with Government Bonds and Junk Bonds?

iShares China Large-Cap ETF

iShares Silver Trust

Direxion Daily Semiconductor Bull 3x Shares

ProShares UltraPro Short QQQ

ProShares UltraPro QQQ

Financial Select Sector SPDR Fund

We have highlighted 10 ETFs that have seen higher average volumes in the second quarter and are thus the top 10 funds in terms of trading volume.

10 Most Heavily Traded ETFs of Q2

Treasury Yields: A Long-Term Perspective – June 2024

Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund

iShares MBS ETF

During LSEG Lipper's fund flows week that ended June 19, 2024, investors were overall net redeemers of fund assets for the first week in three, removing a net $30.0 billion. Taxable bond funds, alternative investments, and tax-exempt bond funds posted net inflows. Conventional equity funds posted a weekly return of positive 0.19%, the third straight week of gains.

U.S. Weekly Fund Flows Insight Report: Equity ETFs See Their Third Outflow Over The Last 4 Weeks

Invesco Senior Loan ETF

Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF

Alpha Architect 1-3 Month Box ETF

Fidelity Total Bond ETF

iShares Bitcoin Trust

iShares S&P 500 Growth ETF

Janus Henderson AAA CLO ETF

JPMorgan Ultra-Short Income ETF

PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active ETF

iShares 0-3 Month Treasury Bond ETF

VanEck Vectors Semiconductor ETF

Vanguard Growth ETF

Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund

Markets steadily march on to record highs, as Q2 2024 wraps up. Many patterns that emerged earlier in the year once again prevailed through the fog of geopolitical and rate uncertainty.

The ETF Flowdown: Q2 2024

News for iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF ETF (TLT)