VCIT News and Press, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 02/04/24

2024-02-04 22:46:00 ET Summary A traditional investment-grade multi-sector bond portfolio offers clear attractions. An investment-grade-only portfolio misses out on the benefit of wider diversification. The high-yield market is relatively small and has tended to benefit as bon...

2024-02-02 21:28:00 ET Stock Traders Daily has produced this trading report using a proprietary method.  This methodology seeks to optimize the entry and exit levels to maximize results and limit risk, and it is also applied to Index options, ETFs, and futures for our subscribers. This...

2024-01-31 10:33:49 ET More on Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF VCIT: Still Worth Buying Short-Rates Will Decline And Long-Term Rates Will Follow Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF Div...

2024-01-30 10:45:00 ET Summary With the Fed cutting rates, at some point, fixed-income securities are likely to appreciate in price when their unwinding begins to take place. Investment-grade U.S. corporate bond sales just hit a record for January at $176 billion, breaching the pr...

2024-01-30 09:22:00 ET Summary Interest rates in most parts of the world appear to be stabilizing as we enter 2024, as inflation trends continue to decline from the high levels seen in the summer of 2022. The Federal Reserve remains laser-focused on inflation and suggested there m...

2024-01-29 10:19:42 ET Summary VCIT has returned 5.16% since June 2023 but has seen a significant rally of over 9.5% since late October. The market seems overly optimistic about Fed rate cuts, but VCIT is still expected to have capital appreciation when rates are cut in 2024. ...

2024-01-29 09:24:00 ET Summary The economy has gained a head of steam since the FOMC’s December 13th meeting. Additional stronger-than-expected data this week. Q4 GDP was reported at 3.3%, down from Q3’s blistering 4.9%, but significantly above the 2.0% consensus est...

2024-01-29 03:58:00 ET Summary It was a narrow stock market in 2023, in terms of annual returns, with the so-called “Mag 7” leading the way. It’s still an ordinary bull market for the Nasdaq 100, with more room to the upside. The credit markets today seem ...

2024-01-26 21:36:00 ET Summary From October 2022 through December 2023, cumulative returns for the US Treasury Bill 1–3 Month Index were 6.1%, compared with 7.5% for the Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index. Historically, in the three months prior to the first Fed rate cut, th...

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...