VCSH News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 04/08/19

During Christmas time, the main indices were more than 20% off of their 2018 highs. Note that at that time, stocks were trading at the widest gap, over the past decade, to their previous highs! Only a hundred days later and the SPDR ® S&P 500 ETF ( SPY ), SPDR ® Dow Jones Ind...

Prologue Since we mentioned it for the first time four months ago , the US yield curve has inverted further, raising fresh concerns about the risk of an upcoming recession . There are arguments to be made that "this time is different” in interpreting inversion. However, there is...

The $9.9B iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF ( TLT +0.6% ) is heading for its worst month of outflows on record as investors pile into shorter-duration ETFS amid a continuing downward slope in benchmark yields. More news on: iShares 20+ Year Treasury Bond ETF, iShares 1-3 Year Treasury B...

Introduction A reader of " Portfolios For The Risk Averse " requested a similar analysis using only Vanguard funds. I liked the idea as I invest heavily in Vanguard funds. While I own mostly mutual funds, for this article when an Exchange-Traded Fund was similar, I went with it to appeal to ...

Beware! It was only few days ago that we warned you about the partially inverted yield curve . Following the FOMC decision on Wednesday, and the remarks made by Jerome Powell during the press conference that followed it, we now feel that the "partially" is likely to be on its way to "fully"...

Has US Bond Volatility Died? It certainly seems as if US bond volatility is dying. March 19th marked the lowest close for the MOVE index - that's the bond market's equivalent of the VIX Index ( VXXB , TVIX , UVXY , VXX , VXXB , VIXM , VIXX , VIXY ) - since it began being tracked, ...

Posted by Gregory Rawls, CFA, CAIA, Senior Investment Research Analyst on Feb. 22, 2019, in Fixed Income From June 2017 to June 2018, customers withdrew more than $30 billion from US bank accounts that didn't earn interest - the first decline in more than a decade. 1 Some of tha...

Photo Source: REUTERS/Leah Millis. Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell holds a press conference following a two day Federal Open Market Committee policy meeting in Washington, U.S., January 30, 2019. For the second month in three, investors were net purchasers of mutual fund assets, inj...

If you're an investor whose emotions and trading bias are heavily influenced by news headlines, you're probably feeling quite jittery right now. Reports of a slowing Eurozone economy, combined with a lack of a trade conflict resolution between the world's two biggest economies, would certainly...

The iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corp Bond ETF ( LQD ) has rallied by about 4% from its 52-week low in Q4 2018. The increasingly dovish Federal Reserve this year has reduced interest rate risk, allowing investment grade bonds to move higher, though investors should beware the weakening eco...