These equity-income strategies tend to hold up better in market selloffs while providing a reasonable income stream.
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Can Digital Resources Help in Wake of Ban on Russian Energy?
As prices spike at gas pumps across country with Russian oil, gas, and coal imports off the table, the domestic energy industry seems to have digital resources available to help manage potential changes in production.
U.S. Investors Counter Inflation With Equities, Commodities, And Short Duration Fixed Income
The producer price index (PPI) for final demand increased 9.7% while core-PPI rose 6.9% for the 12 months ending in January. Conclusion: with global supply chains continuing to become more strained, Europe’s heavy reliance on Russian gas, and Ukraine/Russia contributing around 30% of the world’s
Treasury Bond ETFs Are Rebounding
Treasury bond exchange traded funds have been on the mend, rebounding on the uncertainty over the Russia-Ukraine war and slowing growth concerns.
The falling yields and rising Treasury bond prices reflect investors’ growing concerns and doubts that the Fed would aggressively hike rates in these more uncertain times.
Innovator Launches New Managed Outcome ETFs: BSTP and PSTP
The Step-Up Strategy ETFs will consist of three layers of customized 12-month FLEX Options contracts that seek upside participation to SPY, to a cap, with known buffers against SPY losses of 9% (in the case of BSTP) or 15% (in the case of PSTP). In this manner, the Step-Up Strategy ETFs are
Automate Amazon Redshift load testing with the AWS Analytics Automation Toolkit
In this post, we demonstrate the use of the AWS Analytics Automation Toolkit for JMeter load tests on cloud benchmark data, using Amazon Redshift as a target environment
To use the AWS Analytics Automation Toolkit to run a JMeter load test, deploy the toolkit with the JMeter option, load data into your Amazon Redshift cluster, and customize the default test plan as you see fit.
Deploying service-mesh-based architectures using AWS App Mesh and Amazon ECS
Service-mesh-based architectures provide visibility and control for microservices (a group of loosely coupled services that function together to make an application operate) by providing a consistent way to route and monitor traffic between them
In this post, we’ll explain how to use AWS App Mesh to provide visibility and control for microservices by providing a consistent way to route and monitor traffic between them.
Structure Matters: Security Selection – Which Senior Loan ETF
The current market value of Senior Loan ETFs is $19.8 billion across 7 funds, which is small compared to the $1.5 trillion invested in the overall market for these bonds.
In reviewing the history of the category, the next question investors need to ask is about the makeup of the portfolio as determined by active vs passive decision-making process.
The Best International Stock Funds for 2022
Foreign large-cap funds tend to focus on Europe, specifically established markets in France, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. They often hold significant positions in Asia as well. And although they dabble in emerging-markets stocks, they often cap their exposure to those markets to about 15% of assets. Foreign small/mid-cap funds often carry larger emerging-markets positions. And of course, emerging-markets funds provide the greatest exposure to developing markets.
A CxO’s Guide To Container Monitoring
A software container makes applications portable, packaging an application’s code, configuration files, libraries, system tools and everything else needed to execute that app into a self-contained unit, so you can get it up and running quickly.
Containers isolate the app from its environment, making sure it will run the same way in production as it does in staging, regardless of operating system, network topology, security policies or other differences.
Protecting Your Retirement Nest Egg From Inflation
Postponing claiming Social Security benefits is one way to increase inflation-protected retirement income.
Plus, Social Security benefits are adjusted annually to reflect increases in the Labor Department’s CPI-W, which measures inflation that affects blue-collar workers.
Virginia’s Interim Chief Data Officer Highlights A Need For Data Sharing
The Covid-19 pandemic brought many challenges and required the Virginia Office of Data Governance and Analytics to leverage data for actionable intelligence.
Automation truly allows our internal processes to be executed in a more efficient manner, particularly as it relates to the movement of data between systems or sources.
CCaaS Hits An Inflection Point
Until last year, cloud-based contact center solutions provided better and simpler ways to do the same thing that the premises-based systems were doing.
We are now at an inflection point where cloud vendors can provide value that a premises-based system cannot.
New Azure for Operators solutions and services built for the future of telecommunications
With the most complete offerings for the telecommunications industry, Microsoft is the ideal cloud provider to help operators with their digital transformation journey and enable them to deliver these innovative services to their consumer, enterprise, and public sector customers.
We’re applying Microsoft technology and developer ecosystem capabilities to offer the next-generation Azure for Operators portfolio—carrier-grade hybrid cloud platform, voice core, mobile core, and multi-access edge compute.