VTI News and Press, Vanguard Total Stock Market From 06/22/24

2024-06-22 08:00:00 ET Summary Weekly indicators provide a good "nowcast" of the economy and can signal changes before monthly or quarterly data is available. Data is presented in a factual format to minimize bias, including 12-month highs and lows where relevant. All timefram...

2024-06-20 14:34:55 ET Summary Two of the three major elements needed for a substantial market sell-off are currently in place. Stocks are overvalued viewed from a variety of metrics, and investor complacency hasn't been this high since before the pandemic sent the markets crashin...

2024-06-20 14:08:47 ET Summary Bullish sentiment decreased 0.2 percentage points to 44.4%. Neutral sentiment increased 3.4 percentage points to 33.1%. Bearish sentiment decreased 3.2 percentage points to 22.5%. Neutral sentiment among individual investors about the s...

2024-06-19 12:07:07 ET Summary SPY is very expensive by usual valuation metrics such as P/E, dividend yield, and PEG ratio. Yet, the truly alarming sign comes when its valuation is benchmarked by risk-free rates. With the excess CAPE Yield (“ECY”) hovering at a h...

2024-06-17 12:26:39 ET Summary The market is driven by funds and fear, fear-of-losing and fear-of-missing-out. Money is not a physical object, created by government spending and destroyed by taxation. Federal Government deficit-spending leads to private sector surplus, which c...

2024-06-17 07:00:00 ET Summary The Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF aims to track FTSE High Dividend Yield Index. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF is used to compare VYM in terms of both yield and total return. Both VYM and VTI are Large-Cap ETFs. Alon...

2024-06-16 13:30:00 ET Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) and Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) blasted to all-time highs on Wednesday. Apple is up over 14% in the last month -- the recent rally primarily fueled by a positive response to its annual Worldwide Developers Conference. Apple is inte...

2024-06-14 14:13:30 ET Summary In addition to the often cited factors, we believe price inelastic behavior is keeping inflation from dropping faster. We discuss what may be causing price inelasticity and why it might reverse. As so much of the market moves based on interest ra...

2024-06-14 10:57:48 ET Summary Market volatility increasing due to snap elections in France, widening credit spreads across Europe. Spreads between French/German and Italian/German bonds widening, signaling global risk-off sentiment. US equity markets are driven by risk-taking...

2024-06-13 18:13:55 ET Summary Bullish sentiment is up 5.6 percentage points to 44.6%. Neutral sentiment is up 0.7 percentage points to 29.7%. Bearish sentiment is down 6.3 percentage points to 25.7%. Pessimism among individual investors about the short-term outlook ...