VTC News and Press, Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF From 06/24/20

Rick Rieder, Russ Brownback and Trevor Slaven contend that in the tug-of-war between the considerable economic damage stemming from the coronavirus and subsequent lockdowns, and the fiscal and monetary policy responses put in place, the latter factor is being underestimated by markets. Furthe...

The Federal Reserve says it plans to buy individual corporate bonds on top of the ETFs it is already snapping up. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF, PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index ETF, iShares Aaa – A Rated Corporate Bond ETF, News on the...

By Shamaila Khan As the coronavirus crisis unfolded, prices tumbled and yields spiked to record highs across investment-grade emerging-market debt ((EMD)) - a sector widely considered to have healthy credit fundamentals and a low risk of defaults. Yield Gap Widens with US Corporates ...

Make no mistake in your thinking. Both the bond and the equity markets are being led by the Fed. We are in a time, because of the pandemic, when both Congress and the Fed are doing whatever they think is necessary to get the American economy back on track. The Congress is tossing money up into...

Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF (NASDAQ: VTC ) - $0.2200 . 30-Day SEC Yield of 3.14% as of May 26. Payable Jun 04; for shareholders of record Jun 02; ex-div Jun 01. More news on: Vanguard Total Corporate Bond ETF, Dividend News, News on ETFs, ,

First off, a quick "hat-tip" or shout-out to Nicholas Colas and Jessica Rabe at DataTrek Research, who have been posting similar FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis) charts on the US corporate credit markets. After seeing DataTrek's credit spreads charts over the last few weeks, I went to F...

Even in good times, it's not unusual for companies clinging to the bottom rung of the investment-grade ladder to become fallen angels. Yet concerns surrounding fallen angels are especially pronounced today, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic and concurrent oil crash. During th...

By Michael D. Hyman CIO, Global Investment Grade and Emerging Markets Invesco Fixed Income ; Matt Brill, Senior Portfolio Manager Senior Portfolio Manager ; Steven Thompson, Senior Client Portfolio Manager The central bank’s actions should support liquidity and ...

"With a re-opening global economy we think U.S. investment-grade companies have built enough of a war chest," says Bank of America. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF, PIMCO Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index ETF, iShares Aaa – A Rated Corporate Bon...

With the sound of the Munchkins ringing in my head, and the image of Judy Garland skipping along, I am reminded of all of this, when I look at what the Fed is now doing. They have expanded their borders past anything that we have seen before, in a further effort to combat our coronavirus pande...