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Before 2000, most traditional institutional investment portfolios did not allocate to commodities and traditionally balanced portfolios of stocks (60 percent) and bonds (40 percent) were the prevalent norm with no alternatives across the board. Given that diversification is a significant catalyst for investment, portfolios started greater diversification into alternatives and …

Bitcoin continued its decline after a strong decline on Saturday and fell on Monday by more than 3% to settle around $47,700 levels. Bitcoin lost about a fifth of its value during trading on Saturday, and some attributed this strong decline to profit-taking and global fears, but then managed to …

Bitcoin hovered near $49,000 on Monday, down 1.5% on the day, as traders took losses after a grueling weekend when the world’s most popular cryptocurrency at one point lost more than 20% of its value. This trajectory brought the price of Bitcoin and the amount invested in its futures contracts …

EMB lost $709.5 million last week, worst outflow in two months. Most withdrawals came a day after Powell’s Fed reappointment.The double whammy of a new coronavirus variant and prospects of tighter policy in the U.S. had investors rethinking their appetite for risky emerging-market bonds last week.The $19 billion iShares J.P. …

Bitcoin fell 8% Friday, on the same day, the S&P 500 index retreated by 2.3%, that is to mean the most famous cryptocurrency is not the ideal hedge against volatility in the financial market as may be claimed by its backers.The hedge today was bonds, similar to much of market …

The European Central Bank is under growing pressure from bankers to lend more of its stash of German government bonds to avert a market squeeze that would undo some of its own stimulus efforts.As the safest debt in the region, Germany’s sovereign bonds are the lifeblood of European financial markets …

The looming return of lockdowns to contain Europe’s latest wave of Covid-19 cases poses risk on economic recovery and postponement of the timetable for the ECB’s wind down of emergency stimulus. Euro zone bond yields dropped on Friday and Germany’s entire yield curve fell into negative territory for the first …

US Treasury yields fell on Tuesday morning, ahead of inflation data, as the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield fell by less than a basis point to 1.488%, and the yield on 30-year Treasuries shed less than a basis point, falling to 1.8836%, Returns move inversely with prices and one basis point …

US Treasury yields rose on Monday morning, as investors’ attention turned to inflation data, due for release later in the week, the benchmark 10-year Treasury yield was up 2 basis points to 1.474 percent, and the 30-year Treasury yield added a point. 1 basis at 1.8999% This comes after Treasury …

The US two-year bond yield rose to an 18-month high, as expectations of the Federal Reserve continually curtailing its asset purchases. According to Bloomberg, the yield rose 3 basis points on Tuesday to 0.31%, after Monday’s auction saw weak demand. US bond yields have been rising since last week when …