The yield on the 10-year note finished January 30, 2026 at 4.26%. Meanwhile, the 2-year note ended at 3.52% and the 30-year note ended at 4.87%.
The chart below overlays the daily performance of several Treasury bonds, starting from the pre-recession equity market peaks,...
The S&P 500 reached a new record high this week, even momentarily surpassing 7,000 for the first time. Despite these early advances, the index declined through the latter half of the week, wiping out most of its initial gains. Ultimately, the index concluded...
If 2025 was a very kind year for emerging markets, what will 2026 hold? Many investors and market watchers are anticipating a strong repeat performance for ex-U.S. stocks. Finding the right vehicle therein, then, can offer a major coup for investors The EM...
We could very well be entering an unprecedented era of U.S. domestic business spending and investment in the years to come.
Here’s how. Recently, the Alger team took a close look at the U.S. Private Nonresidential Fixed Investment (PNFI) numbers. PNFI represents business spending...
As the market transitions into a new phase of the economic cycle, VettaFi’s Winter Symposium offered a vital framework for tactical portfolio adjustments. Top strategists joined VettaFi on January 29 to provide data-backed forecasts on the trajectory of global interest rates, persistent inflationary...
Normalizing yield curves, easing monetary policy in the U.S., and a weakening dollar are just a few macro factors that hit the bond markets in 2025. The latter carved a path for emerging market (EM) bond strength last year, giving them the “wow”...