VCIT News and Press, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 01/25/24

2024-01-25 02:30:00 ET Summary While treasury rates, across maturities, jumped dramatically in 2022, their behavior diverged in 2023. The yield curve has been inverted for all of 2023, in all of its variations. If inflation continues its downward path, it is likely that we wil...

2024-01-24 12:26:25 ET More on SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust: SPY: Black Swan Hiding In Plain Sight 2024 Analyst Outlook: Jussi Askola On Being Selective With REITs, Dividend Investing SPY Is At Its Highest Risk Level (Technical Analysis) S&P 500 is not as e...

2024-01-24 11:29:00 ET Summary Many investors remain overweight cash, but markets have begun to price for a substantial decline in short-term interest rates. The Asset Allocation Committee (“the AAC”) therefore thinks it is time to deploy liquidity, locking in bond y...

2024-01-18 17:27:25 ET Summary For the third month in four, mutual fund investors were net redeemers of fund assets, withdrawing $86.0 billion from conventional funds for December. Money market funds (+$18.8 billion) witnessed net inflows for the second consecutive month. Fixe...

2024-01-17 23:10:00 ET Summary The bond market ended the year with both duration and credit risk driving strong returns for a second consecutive month. 10-year Treasury yields slid to their lowest level since July after the Fed softened its stance on further interest rate hikes. ...

2024-01-15 20:30:00 ET Summary Fundamental metrics are showing signs of deterioration to start the year, particularly among the lowest-rated credits. Only 10% of the high-yield market will mature by the end of 2025, and most of this debt will be of higher quality. Given the un...

2024-01-12 23:25:00 ET Summary The biggest economic story of 2023 was about something that didn’t happen. There was no recession in the United States or, for that matter, in the global economy at large. We expect 2024 will be a different environment for AI, one less about h...

2024-01-12 22:55:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 55.3 billion in December, while the proportion of transactions processed via Tradeweb’s Automated Intelligent Execution (AiEX) tool was 84.4%. Total consolidated U.S. ETF no...

2024-01-12 10:03:09 ET Summary The 10-year Treasury note recorded a positive return in 2023, saving a 200-year record of consecutive annual declines. November and December 2023 saw significant gains in the bond market, breaking a 20-year record for the largest 2-month gain in two ...

2024-01-09 13:25:00 ET Summary Amid slower economic growth and more benign monetary policy, we believe that this year bond prices will be driven less by inflation and central bank policy and more by economic growth dynamics. Rather than seek to play the timing of interest rate red...