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Product UpdatesProducts & Solutions

Release Notes: Enhance Visibility into Portfolio Optimizations with Targets and Buy Lists
Explore IMTC's latest product enhancements including targets and buy lists, both of which help provide increased insights in portfolio optimization.
March 24, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: Yields March(ing) Higher
This week saw upgraded economic forecasts and long-end yields moved up in response despite the Fed re-committing to near-zero rates for the near-term future.
March 21, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: How Do You Spell Relief?
This week we saw relief from both Washington and from the CPI data; as the yield curve steepens, fixed income investors begin to bet on the next fed hike.
March 14, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: Powell Fans the Flames
We saw the continuation of higher yields this week as inflation concerns, positive vaccine news, and a faster recovery remain at the forefront of fixed income markets.
March 7, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: Flash Dance
The flash move for Treasuries this week shows the jitters of fixed income investors, worried of the impact of stimulus and potential inflation.
February 28, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: Go Big or Go Home
This week shows an improved valuation of the asset class given the moves in underlying Treasury yields, making fixed income investments more attractive. Will this trend continue?
February 21, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: The Fix Is In
Fixed income markets are digesting the stimulus as both a positive for the economic recovery it brings and also the drawbacks of the massive debt being added to our deficit.
February 14, 2021
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Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: Bond Investors Yield to Snow Blindness
The fixed income market remains in a push-pull state of flux between anticipating normalcy and the continued pandemic reality.
February 7, 2021
Market CommentaryBond Markets

The Fixed Income Brief: GameStop Surges, Yields Pullback
As most of the market attention is on the Reddit / GameStop saga, fixed income investors tuck in for more immediate harsh realities the economy is facing and spreads pullback.
January 31, 2021