VTC News and Press, Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF From 05/06/19

Before the last January '18, February '18 plunge in the equity markets, the S&P 500 peaked on January 26, 2018, at 2,872 - 2,873. With Friday night's close at 2,945, the total gain for the S&P 500 (excluding dividends) is 2.5% from that January '18 peak. That is a paltry return for t...

You read the headlines, "The Markets are going to Hell," and "The Markets will be down 30% by Year-End" and "We are entering a Recession" and all of the rest of the dribble that comes floating along in the Press. Every time I see this stuff my eyes bob up and down and I stare at the ceiling. N...

Bank of America narrows its year-end target for U.S. investment grade bond spreads to 120 basis points from 145 bps on the ICEBofAML US Corporate Index, according to a note by Hans Mikkelsen, head of high-grade credit strategy. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ...

When you have mastered numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words, when reading books. You will be reading meanings. - W. E. B. Du Bois Each day, every day, we see some "legend," some "guru," some "pundit," quoted in the Press. We are either go...

By Collin Martin The investment-grade corporate bond market has gotten riskier. BBB rated corporate bonds now make up more than half of the investment-grade corporate bond market,¹ and the share keeps rising. We suggest investors play defense with their investment-grade corporate bo...

By Kevin Flanagan, Senior Fixed Income Strategist A bit over a month into the new year, and the two asset classes whose performance stands out are U.S. investment grade ((IG)) and high-yield ((HY)) bonds. This recent turn of events is certainly a noteworthy reversal of fortune from how 201...

One month down, eleven more to go. Not that I'm looking to rush 2019 but time has a way of slipping by without us really noticing and before you know it, the holidays and a New Year are upon us once again. Why not stay invested in the market and continue to make contributions throughout the ye...

We’re not in the hyperbolic, click-baiting business of labeling markets bubbles. That said, certain market components can absolutely look and behave like bubbles. Hedgeye CEO Keith McCullough recently posed this question in regard to bubbles: “Why do you have the biggest bubbl...

Vanguard Short-Term Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: BSV ) - $0.1636 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 2.81%. Vanguard Intermediate-Term Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: BIV ) - $0.2181 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.28%. Vanguard Long-Term Bond ETF (NYSEARCA: BLV ) - $0.2851 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 4.01%. Vanguard Total Bond Ma...

By Kevin Flanagan, Senior Fixed Income Strategist; and Josh Shapiro, CFA, Quantitative Strategist One of the more noteworthy stories in the U.S. fixed income arena as 2018 came to a close was the visible reversal in fortune for the high-yield ((HY)) corporate bond market. Not coincidentall...