State Street SPDR Bloomberg 1-3 Month T-Bill ETF

BIL

Market cap $42.7B

The Social Security Administration announced a 2.8% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) for 2026, which will benefit approximately 75 million Americans receiving Social Security and Supplemental Security Income payments.

Rob Isbitts from Sungarden Investors Club on the S&P 500 sucking up all the air in the room and the top things he's thinking about. Building a bond ladder.

Though inflation has improved, it remains one of the most significant threats to an investor's accumulation of wealth. Combined with stock market volatility and broader economic uncertainty, and investors find themselves in a risky environment.

Bond ETFs like SGOV and SCHO gain traction as Treasury yields sink to three-year lows, reflecting rising investor caution amid mounting market stress.

Known to many for supporting ETF institutional investors that favor liquidity, State Street Investment Management has increasingly grown its ETF business by focusing on advisors and retail investors. With the launch today of a new low-cost ultra-short bond ETF, the firm has further supported that community.

U.S.-listed ETFs attracted nearly $19 billion during the week ended Aug. 8, with fixed income approaches decisively leading investor allocations, according to data from Etf.com.

U.S. stocks continued their momentum with a solid +2.30% return, while world stocks pulled back -1.12% after their strong June performance. The commodity surge pushed this asset class to +4.73% year-to-date, representing a remarkable turnaround from the challenging April decline.

The “buy the dip” financial news teleprompter readers and the 35-year-old portfolio managers who have never experienced a market crash are pounding the table, claiming that stocks are still headed to the moon, even after hitting all-time highs and climbing almost 28% after a 20% February to April sell-off.

On this week's episode of ETF Prime, Roxanna Islam, Head of Sector & Industry Research at VettaFi, discusses the latest updates in crypto ETFs. Later, Matt Bartolini, Head of Americas ETF Research at State Street Global Advisors, shares insights on recent market trends and SPDR ETFs.

Stanley Druckenmiller's bet against America's debt is no ordinary trade.