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Bond bears have a new reason to hope as rising yields weigh on long Treasury prices, which have fallen below a key technical support level.Over the past week, long maturities for US government bonds led a broad decline in fixed income, based on a set of ETF proxies through October 21.The iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF has tumbled for five straight days.

This down-cycle cannot be fully cured merely through the application of economic stimulus. Rather, the root cause has to be repaired, and that means the disease has to be brought under control.The economic recovery everyone's counting on is not an independent event, unaffected by developments. Rather, it is highly dependent on progress against the disease but also on the continuation of fiscal expenditures in the interim.Today, it seems to me that most assets are offering expected returns that are fair relative to their expected risk, relative to everything else. But the prospective returns on everything are about the lowest they've ever been.In my view, the low interest rates represent the dominant characteristic of the current financial environment, creating the dominant consideration for investors: the lowest prospective returns in history.

The amount of cash cycling through one of the world’s largest exchange-traded funds is turning heads across Wall Street.

Plenty on Wall Street fear the explosive growth of passive investing will eventually store up trouble for bond portfolios. An academic from the Swiss Finance Institute has found evidence it has already begun.

SPDR Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF (SJNK) - $0.1249.30-Day SEC Yield of 5.37% as of Sept.30.Payable Oct 07; for shareholders of record Oct 02; ex-div Oct 01.

U.S. high-yield bond issuance for 2020 has eclipsed the prior annual sales record of $329.6B set in 2012, according to data compiled by Bloomberg, as companies reap the benefits of

The best high-yield bond ETFs for Q4 2020 are FALN, ANGL, and FDHY.