VTI News and Press, Vanguard Total Stock Market From 02/03/26

2026-02-03 16:20:47 ET XLE and XLB Outperformed SP500 Substantially A few days ago, I wrote an article to explain the leading role of the energy sector (as approximated by XLE) for the SP500. Today, I wanted to extend the discussion to the materials sector, as approximated b...

2026-02-03 10:25:00 ET The long-term return forecast for the Global Market Index ((GMI)) held steady in January at 7%-plus while the benchmark’s trailing 10-year shot higher through last month, rising above 10%. The near-three-percentage-point spread between the high-flying trail...

2026-02-02 15:50:00 ET A whopping 80% of Americans are worried to some degree about a potential recession, according to a 2025 survey from financial association MDRT. While nobody can predict the future, downturns are a natural part of the market cycle. It's uncertain when the next slum...

2026-02-02 13:36:31 ET More on markets U.S. corporate profits stay on solid footing, as Goldman projects double-digit growth in 2026 RBC Capital Markets projects a year-end S&P 500 target of 7,750 Cantor Fitzgerald sees S&P 500 earnings growth accelerating ...

2026-02-02 10:36:00 ET Commodities and foreign stocks led the performance race in January for the major asset classes, based on a set of ETF proxies. Meanwhile, offshore assets, supported by a weak dollar, outperformed their US counterparts by a wide margin.... Read the full artic...

2026-02-02 09:48:46 ET In late November, I suggested that readers should consider selling Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund ETF ( VTI ) and replacing it with another Vanguard ETF, the Vanguard Small-Cap Value Index Fund ETF ( VBR ). Since then, VBR has ridden the interest i...

2026-02-01 08:59:50 ET The energy sector started outperforming While news headlines are heavily dominated by the rise and fall of precious metals recently, this article wants to draw your attention to a development that is less discussed. This is the performance—or perfor...

2026-01-30 14:33:44 ET How does Ray Dalio diagnose market bubbles? As all major market indices (such as the DJI , SP500 , NASDAQ , and also small cap RTY ) kept pushing new highs, I’ve read more fair share of bubbe warnings lately. Inevitably, some of thes...

2026-01-29 16:14:48 ET A macroeconomic development I have been monitoring lately is the weakening of the dollar index (the DXY index as shown in the next chart). As seen, DXY has been hovering around a 4-year low (of roughly 96 as of this writing). Traditional investment wisdom posits that ...

2026-01-29 14:31:00 ET I won't sugar-coat it. Real estate investment trusts , or REITs, have underperformed the overall stock market for some time. Over the past decade, the Vanguard Real Estate ETF (NYSEMKT: VNQ) has delivered annual total returns of just 5.1%, compared with 14...