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Bloomberg Barclays Indices A Bloomberg Professional service offering. US Aggregate Index 1. US Aggregate Index. The Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate Bond Index is a broad-based flagship benchmark that measures the investment. grade, US dollar-denominated, fixed-rate taxable bond market. The index includes Treasuries, government-related and. corporate securities, MBS (agency fixed-rate and hybrid ARM pass-throughs), ABS and CMBS (agency and non-. agency).
Bond market signs point toward inflation and growth. Inflation is a particularly important metric for bond investors, given that most of the bond market is based on fixed rates. The main exceptions are inflation-indexed bonds like Treasury inflation-protected securities (TIPS), which have a portion of their return tied to inflation. Signs from the market suggest that bond investors are now expecting inflation to rise in the future.