Market Trends - Municipal bonds are rallying along with US Treasuries [1] - Soft US jobs data spurred bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates as early as next month [1]

We're going to talk about the Vanguard Ultra-Short Bond ETF (BATS:VUSB). As you might guess from the name, it focuses on bonds with very short duration. This can be a useful tool for someone hunting for a boost to their income without taking on too much duration. The ironic part is that “Ultra-Short” sounds to me like it would be averaging around three months of duration. However, the fund actually averages around 0.9 years using “average duration”: Vanguard That’s why the ETF share price took a hit from la ...

for the first few months when we saw those big numbers um that was the Biden economy. Now that the Trump policy is taking effect, you're seeing downward revisions of 258,000 over the last uh couple of months, only 73,000 jobs added. And it looks like not just to me, but to uh uh participants in this market that today's weak payroll numbers are a direct result of the conscious policy to limit immigration.And I'm just wondering if that trade-off is delivering the kind of benefits you want to see to us workers ...

The Federal Reserve held interest rates steady again this week, and could even keep them in neutral until October. For savers, this is excellent news. https://t.co/5S92a880VD ...

Let's just start with these numbers, because the figure that we got that was below all estimates in the Bloomberg survey of economists to start. What's your reaction. Well, certainly we know they could have been better.But, you know, we look at the positive because we still have a net positive, almost a half a million new jobs since the president took office. Where did we see some of these gains. We saw them in health care. We're seeing them in construction. We are seeing the revisions.I know is something t ...

Joining me now is Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack. And Beth, if we only had something to talk about this, I mean, it's been a really quiet and quiet morning. Yeah.Were you gobsmacked by these numbers. It was a disappointing report, to be sure. But when I look at the data, we don't try not to make too much of any one individual report. And so we look at the confluence of data. We look at the longer term picture.What we have is a labor market that is showing signs that we should be watching carefully, ha ...

The jobs report proves the Federal Reserve should have already been cutting interest rates.The longer the Fed continues to trust the economic data from the government, the more they will remain behind the curve. ...

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 FED RATE CUTS ARE LIKELY COMING IN SEPTEMBER !!! https://t.co/jCOWcpTfIz ...

💥BREAKING:🇺🇸 SEPTEMBER RATE CUT ODDS SURGE TO 75% AFTER TODAY’S LABOR MARKET DATA https://t.co/xDnCvVuHxH ...

🇺🇸 TRUMP: Fed board should take control if Powell doesn’t cut rates. https://t.co/t5D57e8a7x ...