VCSH News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 07/12/19

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testified in Congress yesterday that a rate cut may be near. That's music to the ears of the bond market, because it offers more fuel for extending the rally in fixed-income assets. Every major slice of the US bond market is posting year-to-date gains...

Things couldn't get much better if you're a bond investor. U.S. government and corporate debt markets have bested analysts' expectations so far this year, thanks largely to safe-haven demand as the global economy cools. Bonds have also outperformed equities this year, no small feat given the s...

Friday's strong jobs report (see graph below) only anticipated what was starting to seem inevitable. Despite aggressive expectations regarding imminent interest rate cuts - last week's market consensus was a 77-bp reduction in the Fed funds rate by the end of the year - it looks like the Fed...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) declares monthly distribution of  $0.1923 . More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, News on ETFs, Dividend News, , Read more ...

Investors' insatiable demand for bonds, in part driven by safety concerns, has resulted in collapsing yields. Ironically, this scenario paves the way for higher stock prices in the coming months as equities suddenly look far more attractive relative to lower-yielding debt. In today's report, w...

The last five weeks have reminded us just how sensitive stock prices can be to unwelcome news on the global trade front. I’ve argued in past reports that the market’s heightened sensitivity to the latest tariff-related headlines is also symptomatic of the weak internal condition ...

As far as the market is concerned, the Jerome Powell put is back in play and now the real question is how quickly will it be exhausted by trade war tweets and economic gloom? On Tuesday, stocks posted the biggest one day rally since January on the heels of Powell’s three-sentence re...

By David M. Brown, CFA, Co-Head of Global Investment Grade Fixed Income; Stephen J. Flaherty, CFA, Director of Research, Global Investment Grade Credit; Kristin C. Cejda, Senior Research Analyst, Global Investment Grade Credit; Christopher M. Oshewolo, CFA, Senior Research Analyst, Global Inv...

Investment Thesis PIMCO Enhanced Short Maturity Active ETF ( MINT ), while a well-managed and low-cost way to maximize income and preserve capital, is nevertheless inferior to the benefits achieved from investing in a similar low-cost, short-duration, passively-managed bond index fund. In th...

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...