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| 5/10/2013Market Performance |
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S&P National Bond Index
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3.00% |
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S&P California Bond Index
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2.96% |
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S&P New York Bond Index
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3.13% |
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S&P National 0-5 Year Municipal Bond Index
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0.70% |
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400.09 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index
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848.03 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (CAD)
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636.26 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR)
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1,701.05 |
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S&P U.S. Preferred Stock Index (TR) (CAD)
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1,276.26 |
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S&P REIT Index
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174.07 |
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S&P REIT Index (TR)
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425.30 |
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S&P MLP Index
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2,469.58 |
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S&P MLP Index (TR)
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5,428.50 |
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Why now is a good time to be a credit investor |
Investment Week - June 24, 2011 - By Luke Hickmore
Luke Hickmore, investment director, fixed income at SWIP, discusses why investors in credit will enjoy good returns this year.
If 2010 was the year of the “double dip”, this year’s economic cliché of choice is most assuredly “soft patch”. It is a phrase that has been cropping up with increasing frequency in the financial pages. It is meant to describe the way the economic recovery – particularly in the US – began to stumble after a protracted period of strong economic data.
But it is an accurate description. What we are seeing is a soft patch in the economies of the US, and to some extent the UK – and not a collapse. Part of this may be a result of a poor period of weather, supply chain disruptions that are still evident from the Japanese earthquake in March and a pause in the headlong growth rate that has been the recent history for China and many parts of South East Asia. It is also very possible that this is a typical mid-cycle slowdown in economies.
All of this looks consistent with only a pause in global growth which should give way to renewed vigour later in the year.
Of course, it could be something more troubling – related to the reduction of government participation in economies, or the huge mountain of consumer debt, or the worrying spectre of bad debt sucking away discretionary spending.
But even so, while such factors are bound to have a depressing effect on equities, they are likely to exert less of a malign influence on corporate bonds.
Read more: http://www.investmentweek.co.uk/investment-week/feature/2081426/credit-investor#ixzz1QUT5O4KO
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