SHY News

An accelerating rout in AI stocks sent the U.S. dollar to its worst weekly drop in a month while Treasuries resumed their slide for the week ending Oct. 16.

Billionaire investor Ray Dalio warns that mounting sovereign debt refinancing and waning international interest threaten to deepen the protracted downturn in U.S. Treasuries.

Surging crude oil prices and sticky inflation expectations kept U.S. Treasuries elevated for the week ending October 9, 2026, propelling the U.S. dollar to its longest weekly winning streak in over a year and a half.

Benchmark 10-year and 30-year yields remained stubbornly above the 5% level in the week ending Oct. 2, with weak employment data providing a mild hiatus in the upward yield trajectory.

Surging oil prices, expanded bond buybacks, hawkish comments from multiple Federal Reserve officials, and persistent inflation fears drove a global bond market selloff this week.

A hawkish interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve and expectations of further tightening propelled the U.S. dollar to its strongest weekly gain since June, while Treasury yields surged across short and long tenors.

ETFs like SHY could benefit as the Fed hikes rates, with short-term debt offering rising yields and limited duration risk.

Barclays said on Thursday that it expects an extended hold in policy rates, dependent on inflation, activity, and labor market conditions moderating through the summer.

Looking today at week-over-week shares outstanding changes among the universe of ETFs covered at ETF Channel, one standout is the iShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (Symbol: SHY) where we have detected an approximate $164.2 million dollar outflow -- that's a 0.6% decrease week...