VCSH News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF From 03/06/20

Fed Chair Jerome Powell followed through on his pledge last week to act as appropriate with a "shock-and-awe" emergency rate cut of 50bps, which was the largest since the Great Financial Crisis. As Bloomberg pointed out: The surprise wasn’t necessarily the magnitude of the move. Ra...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) - $0.1623 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 1.90% as of Feb. 26. Payable Mar 05; for shareholders of record Mar 03; ex-div Mar 02. More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs,

The fear trade that's animating Treasury buying is alive and well. Although you might have missed it by focusing on the soaring US equity market, the rush into safe-haven Treasuries has hardly missed a beat this year - a preference that's pushed bond prices up and yields down. A key theme th...

Few days ago, we've touched upon the unbelievable move down in yields on Greek ( GREK ) government debt. Although there's nothing similar among the western world to that crash of yields on those "ouzo bonds", falling yields isn't only a universal phenomena, but it's reaching unprecedented le...

Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VCSH ) - $0.1855 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.08% as of Jan. 29. Payable Feb 06; for shareholders of record Feb 04; ex-div Feb 03. More news on: Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond Index ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

This week, there were no major speeches from the Fed. So, let's take a look at some key numbers for the US banking sector - focusing on delinquencies and charge-offs. First of all - what does this have to do with the bond market? A well-functioning financial sector is mandatory for the fixed...

As equity prices soar to ever greater heights, bonds are attracting interest once again from safety-conscious investors. Led by recent gains in high-yield corporate debt, U.S. government bond prices are inching higher and threatening to break out to considerably higher levels in the coming wee...

The Vanguard Total Bond Market ETF (NYSE: BND ) with total assets under management at $250 billion is the largest fixed-income-based exchange-traded fund in the world. The purpose of BND is to provide passive broad-market exposure to U.S. investment-grade bonds in a low-cost structure. The...

Procter & Gamble’s Cash Flow History Let’s first take a bird’s eye view of Procter & Gamble’s ( PG ) financial history, for the uninitiated. Procter & Gamble is a dividend aristocrat brand holding company, focusing on consumer staple brands. You migh...

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...