VTI News and Press, Vanguard Total Stock Market From 10/23/23

2023-10-23 11:35:56 ET Summary The Magnificent 7 stocks, including Nvidia, Tesla, Meta, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, and Alphabet, may be facing a significant decline based on technical charts. The initial rise in these stocks was driven by a short-volatility dispersion trade, but th...

2023-10-23 09:27:25 ET Summary Small-company stock indexes reached for new 52-week lows this week, indicating a bearish market trend. Rotten breadth participation outside of a handful of Big Tech names this year has historically indicated a topping market and approaching bear. ...

2023-10-21 09:00:00 ET Summary The Fed is projecting "higher for longer" interest rates. We think that they are simply managing expectations. We explain why we think that interest rates are likely to return lower. Co-produced by Austin Rogers. Federal Reserve...

2023-10-21 08:00:00 ET Summary Long leading indicators remain negative, with interest rates at multi-decade highs. Short leading indicators are neutral but have stopped improving. Coincident indicators continue to improve and are now solidly positive. Purpose I l...

2023-10-20 18:17:40 ET Summary Traditional signs of a recession have been ignored by the market for many quarters now. These include an inverted yield curve and 18 months of straight declines in the LEI. However, the market has started to backtrack since August, coinciding with se...

2023-10-20 11:45:12 ET Summary Inflation is expected to remain high, with no rate cuts in sight, causing concern for the bulls. Earnings estimates for the fourth quarter are falling, raising doubts about the S&P 500's lofty valuation. Margin estimates for 2024 appear to be...

2023-10-20 08:25:00 ET Summary Fed Chair Jerome Powell delivers a hawkish speech, warns of lower stock prices and higher interest rates going forward. Powell suggests recent increase in long-term yields is due to factors such as strength in the economy, unsustainable fiscal defici...

2023-10-19 16:43:18 ET Summary Treasury yields just reached their highest levels since 2007, causing yesterday's selloff in equities and increasing my sense of "deja vu." Mortgage rates also just touched eight percent for the first time since 2000 and mortgage application volume j...

2023-10-19 16:13:18 ET Summary Bullish sentiment decreased 5.9 percentage points to 34.1%. Neutral sentiment rose 7.8 percentage points to 31.3%. Bearish sentiment fell 1.9 percentage points to 34.6%. Optimism among individual investors about the short-term outlook f...

2023-10-17 11:54:06 ET Summary Since the Federal Reserve began their current policy of monetary tightening in March of 2022, short-term treasuries have easily outperformed equities. Given the central bank's history of errant forecasts and triggering frequent "accidents" in the eco...