AGNC Investment Remains Comfortable With its 16%-Yielding Dividend Amid the Recent Market Shift
Market volatility has increased significantly this year. The CEO of AGNC Investment, Peter Federico, discussed the recent market shift on the company's first-quarter earnings conference call. Federico noted that "This interest rate volatility and broad macroeconomic uncertainty caused normal financial market correlations to break down, liquidity to become constrained, and investor sentiment to turn negative."