VT News and Press, Vanguard Total World Stock Index From 05/03/21

The euro, wheat futures' sell signals may be tradeable, reports Trevor Smith of Trevor's Trading. For further details see: Shorting the Softs, World Markets Come Off

There are 43 different exchange traded funds that have reached 24-month highs as of April 28, 2021. The ETF universe has been on fire this year with record-setting inflows that are on pace to hit $1T over the course of one full calendar year. The exchange traded funds that have hit 24-month h...

Discussing five growth areas, along with ways in which we can make money as passive investors. Inflation is clearly brewing, due mostly to "demand push" inflation for many high-demand goods, such as homes, vehicles, and now workers (via wages). If the long-term capital gains tax r...

InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips This has not been the best market for passive investing and index funds. Certainly, major indices have rallied nicely from March 2020 lows. But that stretch has been perhaps the best in history for active retail investors...

There are good reasons to believe that there will be no return to the pre-QE configuration of balance sheets. First, the increasing global financial integration in the last few decades has imposed increasing challenges in terms of making liquidity management effective as cross-border ...

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 ...

The first quarter of 2021 brought what the Asset Allocation Committee expected, and as it looks to the next six to 12 months, it faces two questions. Do we think the economy will overheat, pushing bond yields to levels that unsettle equity markets or even force central banks to stifle...

Companies that are most likely to benefit from economies opening back up will be the most obvious growth driver in 2021. Consumers do a lot of things differently than they did 12 months ago - more online shopping, use of credit and debit cards over cash, and how they watch their favor...

The global trend towards increasing globalization since the 1990s seems to have had two different distributional consequences: income inequality between countries has declined, while economic inequality within countries has increased. However, technological progress has made the bigge...

In the 1990s and 2000s, the world manufacturing production to a substantial extent moved from advanced countries to some developing countries. That resulted from the combination of an increase of the labor supply in the global market economy, trade opening, and technological transform...