VCSH News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 09/26/19

Last week, the OECD has cut the growth forecasts for almost every major economy, except for Japan ( EWJ , DXJ ). Back in May, the OECD already trimmed its growth expectations for 2019, but this time around, we also received some significant down revisions for 2020. Overall, the OECD has low...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) - $0.1959 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.35% as of Aug. 28. Payable Sep 06; for shareholders of record Sep 04; ex-div Sep 03. More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

With a fresh wave of broad market selling pressure underway thanks to an escalation in the trade war with China, many are worried that the U.S. economy may soon be in recession. The rationale behind this belief is that the U.S. is losing the trade war and can only suffer further if retaliato...

American pensions are in trouble. A Wilshire Consulting Report from 2017 shows that 97% of the 103 state pension funds that report actuarial values were underfunded. The "funded ratio" — that is, the percentage of liabilities (promised benefits) covered by current assets (funds av...

In my opinion, the key to dealing with the future lies in knowing where you are, even if can't know precisely where you're going. Knowing where you are in a cycle and what that implies for the future is different from predicting the timing, extent and shape of the cyclical move. - Th...

Phenomenal Return for Bonds The 10% total return from bonds* over the past year is the highest Y/Y gain since 2009 (which saw a big bounce following the 2008 financial crisis). *As measured by the performance of the iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond ETF ( AGG ) However, as strange as it...

So far this year, employers have announced plans to cut 369,832 jobs, a 35.8% increase from the 272,301 cuts announced in the first seven months of last year. It is the highest seven-month total since 2015, when 393,368 cuts were announced. - 2019 July Job Cut Report: 38,845 Cuts in ...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) - $0.2071 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.56% as of July 29. Payable Aug 06; for shareholders of record Aug 02; ex-div Aug 01. More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs,

Make no mistake in your thinking. The nations of Germany, France, the Netherlands, and the rest of the European Union, along with Switzerland, and Japan, are "forcing" the Fed into a corner without any real escape. To begin with, the Fed, by its charter, is an "Independent Entity" created by t...

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...