VPL News and Press, Vanguard FTSE Pacific From 06/18/21

Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF (VPL) - $0.4952.Payable Jun 24; for shareholders of record Jun 22; ex-div Jun 21. For further details see: Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.4952

Last year's pandemic crisis U-trip took just 128 days - significantly less than the long-term average, despite a once-in-a-generation healthcare crisis. While the recovery speed has varied, the global economy is clearly on the mend. We believe that the next phase of the reopening/...

Global supply chain woes persist in May. Asia manufacturing performance on the line amid supply constraints. Sustained supply and demand gap could lead to price stickiness. For further details see: Global Manufacturing PMI Highlights Sustained Supply Constraints And Pric...

18 percent of companies are expected to experience liquidity-related financial distress and 16 percent are expected to experience insolvency risk. The vast majority of IPOs in 2020-2021 have been SPACs (aka, vehicles for swapping ownership of prior investments, as opposed to generatin...

The market has been trading on forward assumptions for the entire duration of the pandemic up to and including the present day. One year ago, the world was coming to terms with the reality of the damage wreaked by the pandemic, but the stock market had it all figured out. On April 23,...

The pace of recovery has begun to diverge across economies, with vaccination progress and the scale of government stimulus among the biggest swing factors. Macro disparities have also begun filtering into EPS growth expectations. Cyclically sensitive sectors have dominated the upg...

The ability of Chinese manufacturers to meet demand has been constrained by the current scarcity of shipping containers. Supply chains were complex and tenuous before the COVID-19 virus pandemic, and have since become more so. Supply chains are difficult to manage, but indicators ...

We see the restart, stabilizing U.S. Treasury yields and relatively cheap valuations boosting emerging market (EM) assets after a choppy start to 2021. U.S. stocks hit record highs and 10-year Treasury yields fell to the lowest level in more than a month. Major U.S. banks reported pos...

As the global economy recovers, inflationary pressures are building, and price increases are moving downstream. Our Materials Price Index (MPI) has surged 40% since mid-November 2020, reaching its highest level since early 2014. World real GDP is projected to advance 5.1% in 2021 ...

A year has now passed since the correction of March 2020, as markets first appreciated the implications of a global pandemic. With continued weakness in developed markets, we have seen a continuance of unprecedented fiscal and monetary stimulus. The concept of a world-leading emer...