VCIT News and Press, Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 05/16/24

2024-05-16 03:10:00 ET Summary The Fed continues to hold interest rates steady as it focuses on the totality of economic data before it begins to cut rates. Meanwhile, the markets now expect the Fed to cut rates only once toward the latter part of this year. Corporate bond spreads...

2024-05-14 08:15:00 ET Summary Why market performance and sentiment are diverging. The growing gap between hard economic data and soft data. Why you may be losing money if you're not in the markets. The U.S. economy continues to show its resilience, but that ...

2024-05-14 04:30:00 ET Summary Trading activity on the Tradeweb European ETF marketplace reached EUR 54.7 billion in April. Total consolidated U.S. ETF notional value traded in April reached USD 57.4 billion. As a percentage of total notional value, equities accounted for 56% ...

2024-05-13 02:32:00 ET Summary While the capital markets and the media react far more to the actual inflation data, ultimately it’s inflation expectations that matter more. There is a growing awareness of the “tightness” of corporate high yield credit, which i...

2024-05-12 09:30:00 ET Wells Fargo argued in a recent investor note that the risks are rising that the Federal Reserve will need to hold interest rates steady in the face of stubbornly high inflation, a condition which could push the 2-year Treasury yield towards 5%.... Read the full ...

2024-05-08 05:00:00 ET Summary We believe spring is an opportune time, given significant moves in bond yields and currencies thus far in 2024. Stocks, bonds, currencies and commodities have made significant moves in the past few months. Emerging markets are unlikely to rebound...

2024-05-03 07:40:00 ET Summary Following last year's strong close, first quarter returns for the capital markets were driven by hope and a measure of fear. The bond market did not fare as well, beginning first with the Fed urging caution about the timing and magnitude of rate cuts...

2024-05-01 12:00:00 ET Summary Stronger-than-anticipated economic data released during the first quarter led to a significant downward shift in market expectations for 2024 rate cuts. While equity markets were mostly unfazed by this change in expectations, fixed income markets exp...

2024-04-30 10:42:38 ET More on Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF Seeking Alpha’s Quant Rating on Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF Dividend scorecard for Vanguard Intermediate-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF Read the full ar...

2024-04-29 10:00:00 ET Summary Interest rates are now at their highest levels since the early 2000s, helping to make bonds more attractive to investors who had been sitting on the sidelines the past couple of years as bonds endured significant volatility. Even with ongoing volatil...