VCSH News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 01/15/20

A Year to Remember Almost everything went up in 2019, with very few red spots. For example: Major currencies like the European ( VGK , EZU , HEDJ , FEZ , IEUR , BBEU , IEV ) Euro ( FXE ), Japanese ( EWJ , DXJ ) Yen ( FXY ), or Chinese ( MCHI , FXI ) Yuan that surrendered to the s...

The Fortune Teller ("TFT") is a well-known Seeking Alphacontributor who has been involved in the capital markets for over three decades. TFT is the main "spinner" of Wheel of Fortune ("WoF"), a Marketplace service that was launched in March 2017 and known to be a one-stop shop covering all as...

Introduction I screened over 700 funds that had high ratings by Market Edge (Long), Morningstar (5), FactSet (A), Ned Davis (>=4), XTF (>=9) and Mutual Fund Observer (Rating = 5) and met other criteria such as being at least five years old and having greater than $100M in assets. I sum...

Note: This article is a co-production between The Macro Teller ("TMT"), moderator of Macro Trading Factory ("MTF"), and The Fortune Teller ("TFT"), moderator of Wheel of Fortune ("WoF"). Background Remember how Chris Gardner (Will Smith) is rising from the bottom to the top in the ...

As a follow up to my article The U.S. Debt Bubble in five charts, let’s examine where stress may be occurring in U.S. credit markets, and implications for shareholders of two of the largest junk bond funds. Source: Cartoonaday.com Investors Demand More Yield in the Junkiest of Cre...

Background The article you're about to read is The Macro Teller 's ("TMT") first publication on the Seeking Alpha ("SA") platform, under this name. Nevertheless, TMT is not a new face on SA, rather the "macro version", alter-ego if you'd like, of the same author whose known here by th...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) - $0.2025 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.21% as of Dec. 17. Payable Dec 27; for shareholders of record Dec 24; ex-div Dec 23. More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

Introduction It has been a challenging year for the global economy in 2019, and 2020 is not shaping up to be much, if any, easier. We project global GDP growth will be 3.0% this year, which would be the slowest pace of growth since the global recession of 2008 and 2009. For 2020, we do no...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) - $0.1832 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.22% as of Nov. 26. Payable Dec 05; for shareholders of record Dec 03; ex-div Dec 02. More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

It's a widely-accepted fact that leverage increases the risk of a portfolio. On the surface, the idea makes sense. Think of an investment in the ProShares UltraPro QQQ ETF ( TQQQ ) that has 3x exposure to the Nasdaq 100 ( QQQ ). Each day that the stock index is down 1%, TQQQ should be down 3...