VTIP News and Press, Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities From 04/08/22

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has fully miscalculated the West’s response to his invasion of Ukraine. The US Federal Reserve (Fed) looks to have underestimated the underlying price pressures that have accumulated in the US economy. The developing new world order ...

The expected risk premium for the Global Market Index ticked slightly higher in March to an annualized 5.8% pace, fractionally above last month’s estimate. Using short-term momentum and medium-term mean-reversion market factors (defined below) to adjust the forecast trims GMI&#...

As the US Treasury curve approaches the point of inversion—where shorter-term yields are higher than longer-term ones—investors are taking notice. Historically, an inverted yield curve has portended a recession and weak financial markets. Given much higher yields and...

Follow the Money is a series of brief, information-rich posts that I will publish periodically but not on a fixed schedule. After rallying for 9 of the last 11 days, the S&P 500 went from down -13% to down just -3.4%. Growth has been hit hard by the slide in tech stocks this y...

Pick any barometer of costs these days, and the story is the same: Prices are up - and in a dramatic fashion. The first thing that jumps out is the dismal performance of most asset classes during periods of low growth and high inflation - otherwise known as stagflation. A solid fo...

Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF (VTIP) - $0.4869. 30-Day SEC Yield of -2.98% as of Mar. 24. Payable Apr 06; for shareholders of record Apr 04; ex-div Apr 01. For further details see: Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF declares quarterly distrib...

Treasury yields have been on the rise for three consecutive weeks, with the 10-year Treasury yield finishing Refinitiv Lipper’s fund-flows week ended March 23, 2022, at 2.32% after hitting an almost four-year high of 2.38% the day before. And while historically investors genera...

The March FOMC meeting confirmed one very important issue for the money and bond markets: rates are going to continue to go up. Through the prism of rate hikes and quantitative tightening, investors are trying to determine where Treasury yields will be going in the process. Accord...

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the sanctions response, and the gyrations in commodity markets cast an even thicker layer of uncertainty on what already was an uncertain economic and financial market outlook before the onset of this horrific war. Despite the many unknowns, we dra...

A stock market crash is something no investor can predict with reasonable certainty. However, that doesn’t stop savvy investors from moving their money into safe havens when enough signs point toward impending downturn. When considering bond investments in a down market, it...