by John Luke Tyner | Mar 29, 2022 | Blog, Bonds, Macro Updates
The spread between the 10-year Treasury and the 2-year Treasury has compressed materially over the first three months of 2022 (~80bps of tightening), and inverted yesterday for a brief moment. The 10/2 spread is currently sitting at 5bps this morning vs. 80bps on...
by John Luke Tyner | Mar 17, 2022 | Blog, Macro Updates
And…We Have Lift Off As expected, the Fed raised the overnight target rate 25 bps to 0.25% – 0.50%. The market had priced seven hikes this year prior to the meeting, and the Fed delivered. For some time now, the market has been pulling the Fed in its...
by David Wagner | Mar 15, 2022 | Blog, Macro Updates
Let the March Madness begin! As you may know, Aptus has six (6) employees that played D-1 College Basketball at UNC Wilmington, UA-Huntsville, and Wright State. The latter of the group is the only one to make the tournament this year and will be playing Wednesday...
by David Wagner | Mar 9, 2022 | Blog, Macro Updates
It’s no secret that the underlying market dynamics have changed over the past month due to geopolitical forces potentially causing a slowdown in global growth. In our 2022 Market Outlook, we told investors to focus on growth because we knew that we’d get some type of...
by John Luke Tyner | Mar 3, 2022 | Blog, Macro Updates
Current Rates & the Curve: The Ukraine-Russia War captured investors’ attention as the 10-year US Treasury traded in a ~30 bps range since last week. The yield of 2.00% quickly became a sub-1.70% as the market digested the ever-changing geopolitical...
by David Wagner | Feb 28, 2022 | Blog, Macro Updates
Update on Russia/Ukraine Asset Allocation Implications: How might the current geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine impact a client’s asset allocation? Yes; the simple answer would be that we’ve seen substantial volatility in the equity markets –...
