VT News and Press, Vanguard Total World Stock Index From 03/23/22

Russia's invasion of Ukraine on 24 February has fundamentally changed the geopolitical landscape - with economic consequences. While the 2022 global growth rate represents a slowdown from 5.8% in 2021, the world economy has sufficient resilience to avert a recession. While Russia ...

VGK provides exposure to a basket of European equities. The fund is well-diversified both across sectors and issuers. It can therefore be used as part of a broader portfolio strategy to get targeted exposure to European economies. VGK is cheaper than a plain vanilla S&P 500 ET...

European stocks actually performed better than the NASDAQ last week so maybe it was positive developments in the Ukraine war that spurred the rally. The dollar index fell nearly 1% last week but is still in an uptrend across shorter time frames. What the market does on a week to w...

Vanguard Total World Stock ETF (VT) - $0.2572. Payable Mar 24; for shareholders of record Mar 22; ex-div Mar 21. For further details see: Vanguard Total World Stock ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.2572

An analysis of global supply chains and commodity markets in the presence of significant kinetic warfare. An overview of why sovereign reserve practices may start to shift towards more diversification and neutral reserve assets. Examples of three attractive stocks for the long run...

March PMI data will therefore be scrutinised for the impact of these events on various economic metrics such as output, supply chains, prices and upon the sole sentiment PMI sub-index - the future output index. Since the eruption of the Ukraine crisis on February 24, commodity prices ...

We see the Ukraine war reducing global growth, increasing inflation and putting central banks in a bind. We prefer developed stocks in the inflationary backdrop. Stocks led by European equities bounced from 2022 lows last week, as oil prices came off highs. The European Central Bank a...

Putin’s gamble, and the West’s response, has brought into view one of the few existential tail risks that isn’t a Black Swan: the risk of an escalation into war between Russia and NATO, and the exchange of nuclear weaponry. We also know that the war between Ukrain...

The global economy expanded for a twentieth straight month in February, according to the JPMorgan Global PMI™ with the rate of expansion accelerating from January's 18-month low as the COVID-19 Omicron wave showed signs of easing. Global GDP growth in Q1 2022 so far looks slowe...

Structurally, there's a lot to admire about Sweden. The Swedish central bank may have to abandon its dovish policy ahead of schedule and this could aid the Krone which looks relatively oversold. Russia and Ukraine account for less than 2% of Swedish imports and exports. EWD ha...