Bill Gross

A new SEC regulatory filing last week revealed that famed fixed-income investor Jeffrey Gundlach is teaming up with State Street Global Advisors on an actively managed bond ETF.  The new fund has been dubbed The SPDR DoubleLine Total Return Tactical ETF.  Gundlach is well-known for...

U.S. stocks rose as investors cheered the latest move by the Federal Reserve who stacked on another $10 billion to its tapering effort. By doing so, the central bank has lowered its asset purchases to $45 billion per month. “Information received since the Federal Open Market Committee met in...

U.S. stocks fell on Tuesday as investors found a decline in consumer confidence as reason enough to keep stocks from moving higher. The S&P 500 retreated from its record all time high set yesterday but took a run above the 1,850 level in the late morning. The all time high for the index is...

Investors had been anxiously and nervously waiting for today's job reports which could have sent major indices moving sharply in either direction. The November Nonfarm Payroll increased 203K, above consensus of 180K and above the previous reading of 200K. The Unemployment rate rang in at 7.0...

U.S. markets were mostly lower during Wednesday’s trading session as details coming out of China’s recent four-day meeting were iffy at best. The country's leaders recently convened to discuss its economic future. Barclays economists were quoted as saying “While the [Plenum] communiqué may have...

If you were to count how many of the big-named Wall Street investors have a teddy bear personality, you wouldn’t count very high but one of those might be Bill Gross. Following the release of Carl Icahn’s letter to Apple, Bill Gross had some harsh words for Icahn—at least by...

If you’re unfamiliar with the name, Bill Gross is the co-founder of PIMCO, one of the largest fixed income managers in the world with more than $2 trillion in assets under management. Gross is known as “The Bond King” and is worth about $2 billion. But Gross lives in the bond...

Pacific Investment Management Co.'s Bill Gross has a well-documented affinity for Mexican debt and the country's currency, the peso. With that sentiment being widely known throughout global bond markets, that might be the reason more bullish comment from Gross about the Mexican peso are not doing...

Mexico, Latin America's second-largest economy behind Brazil, has a sovereign credit rating of BBB on the Standard & Poor's scale. That is barely investment grade, but with little chance that rating will be altered for the worse, investors have been embracing Mexican bonds. When yields on peso...

This weekend in Barron's online: part one of the Barron's 2013 Roundtable picks and pans, the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum and the prospects for Crocs, Fossil and a buyout of Dell. Cover Story "Here's What's Cooking for 2013" by Lauren R. Rublin. Members of the Barron's 2013...

One of the biggest themes in the ETF universe in 2012 has been the impressive accumulation of assets by bond funds. Through the first 10 months of 2012, all bond ETFs, U.S-listed and those trading outside the U.S., raked in $114 billion in new assets. U.S. funds did the bulk of the work,...

It is news because of the name behind the fund, but it can hardly be considered surprising news that the PIMCO Total Return ETF (NYSE: BOND), also known as the "Bill Gross ETF," has topped $3 billion in assets under management. Under any circumstances, $3 billion in assets under management is...

The Federal Reserve said Thursday it will go on a mortgage-backed securities shopping spree to the tune of $40 billion worth of bonds per month. Elevating its purchases of mortgage-backed securities shows the central bank is concerned about economic growth and is willing to take aggressive action...

The majority of the week has been painfully slow from a trading perspective, with sparse economic releases and few earnings. Trading volume has been low, as the markets have slowly moved lower on a tight range with little volume. That could change tomorrow. At 10 a.m. ET, Federal Reserve Chairman...