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CBO's Projections of Spending for the 2018-2028 Period
April 17, 2018--Last Monday, the Congressional Budget Office released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028, the latest installment of an annual report explaining the agency's budget and economic projections. This week, CBO is publishing daily blog posts to share key excerpts from the report, and today's post is about the agency's projections of federal spending.
Under current law, federal outlays in 2018 will total $4.1 trillion, CBO estimates-$160 billion, or 4 percent, more than the amount spent in 2017. Spending is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 5.5 percent over the coming decade, reaching $7.0 trillion in 2028. Social Security, Medicare, and net interest account for more than two-thirds of that increase.
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
CBO's Economic Forecast for the 2018-2028 Period
April 16, 2018--Last Monday, the Congressional Budget Office released The Budget and Economic Outlook: 2018 to 2028, the latest installment of an annual report explaining the agency's budget and economic projections.
This week, CBO is publishing daily blog posts to share key excerpts from the report, and today's post is about the agency's economic projections. (CBO has also posted a series of slides about those projections.)
In CBO's projections for 2018 through 2028, the economy follows a marked cyclical path: Economic growth rises notably this year, slows during the next few years, and then rises to match the growth of potential output-the maximum sustainable output of the economy-in the last years of the projection period. Over the next few years, the demand for output exceeds the sustainable supply of output (that is, there is excess demand in the economy).
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Source: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Treasury International Capital Data For February
April 16, 2018--The U.S. Department of the Treasury today released Treasury International Capital (TIC) data for February 2018. The next release, which will report on data for March 2018, is scheduled for May 15, 2018.
The sum total in February of all net foreign acquisitions of long-term securities, short-term U.S. securities, and banking flows was a monthly net TIC inflow of $44.7 billion. Of this, net foreign private inflows were $26.9 billion, and net foreign official inflows were $17.8 billion.
Foreign residents increased their holdings of long-term U.S. securities in February; net purchases were $57.9 billion. Net purchases by private foreign investors were $31.6 billion, while net purchases by foreign official institutions were $26.3 billion.
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Source: treasury.gov
Republicans to Work With Democrats, in New Policy ETF Anyway
April 13, 2018--EventShares to broaden tax reform fund, cut partisan focus
GOP, DEMS ETFs to be shut after just 6 months on the market
An ETF startup is trying to do what Congress can't: get Democrats and Republicans to work well together.
Active Weighting Advisors is shutting down two EventShares-branded exchange-traded funds that focus on Republican and Democratic policies, it said in a press statement. Meanwhile, the firm, which was founded by a Goldman Sachs alum, is broadening the strategy of a third product to invest in companies affected by a range of political themes, regardless of party affiliation. The ETFs all began trading six months ago.
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Source: Bloomberg
U.S. Again Declines to Designate China as a Currency Manipulator
April 13, 2018--China remains on Treasury monitoring list, while India is added.
The U.S. Treasury passed up a formal opportunity to designate China a currency manipulator, though it faulted Beijing for doing too little to open its economy and retained China on a formal monitoring list for possibly receiving the designation in the future.
"The increasingly non-market direction of China's economic development poses growing risks to its major trading partners and the long-term global growth outlook," the department said of China in its semiannual report on international exchange rates.
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Source: Wall Street Journal
Evolve Active Core Fixed Income ETF Launches on NEO
April 12, 2018--The Aequitas NEO Exchange ("NEO") is pleased to announce that Evolve Funds Group Inc. ("Evolve ETFs") launched the Evolve Active Core Fixed Income ETF (NEO:FIXD) on NEO.
When the fund launched on March 29, 2018, Evolve ETFs became the tenth ETF provider to list products on NEO. FIXD invests primarily in domestic and international fixed income securities.
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Source: NEO Exchange
TMX Group Sells its 24.2% Stake in Fixed Income Index Business
April 12, 2018--TMX Group today announced it has completed the sale of its entire 24.2% shareholding in FTSE TMX Global Debt Capital Markets Limited to FTSE International Limited.
TMX Group's decision to enter into this transaction was made within the scope of the company's strategy to focus resources on growing core data and analytics businesses.
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Source: TMX Group
U.S. Weekly FundFlows Insight Report: Despite Big Market Swings, Investors Are Net Purchasers of Long-Term Fund Assets for the Week
April 12, 2018--For the first week in five investors were net purchasers of fund assets (including those of conventional funds and ETFs), injecting a little less than $3.0 billion. While fund investors were net redeemers of money market funds (-$9.0 billion) and municipal bond funds (-$245 million), they padded the coffers of taxable bond funds (+$6.5 billion) and equity funds (+$5.7 billion) for the fund-flows week ended April 11, 2018.
Market Wrap-Up
Bipolar swings over trade war concerns, rising geopolitical tensions after a suspected chemical attack in Syria, and an FBI raid on President Donald Trump's personal lawyer's office kept market returns on the volatile side. For the fund-flows week the Dow Jones Industrial Average Price Only Index (-0.31%) witnessed the largest decline of the broad-based indices. However, the Russell 2000 Price Only Index (+0.99%) and the NASDAQ Composite Price Only Index (+0.38%) managed to post plus-side returns.
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Source: Thomson Reuters
TrimTabs Announces TTAC's Inclusion In RBC Allocation Portfolio
April 11, 2018--Fund pursues a tactical approach with a balanced mandate for Canadian investors
TrimTabs Asset Management (TTAM), a New York City-based investment manager focused on free cash flow-centric strategies, today announced the addition of its flagship fund, the TrimTabs All Cap US Free-Cash-Flow ETF (TTAC), into the RBC Wealth Management's PAG+ Canadian Active Allocation Model.
RBC Wealth Management is a provider of services for high net worth individuals, as well as corporate and institutional clients, and manages more than $702 billion worldwide.1
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Source: TrimTabs Asset Management
Blue Tractor Group files with the SEC
April 11, 2018--Blue Tractor Group has filed a fifth amended and restated application for exemptive relief with the SEC.
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Source: SEC.gov
