VTWO News and Press, Vanguard Russell 2000 Index Fund From 03/01/23

Summary MCJ Capital Partners is an emerging alternative investment management firm with a small cap bias. We implement a capacity constrained strategy with a bias towards investing in high quality, smaller businesses less accessible to larger capital bases. For Q4 of 2022 our total retu...

Summary Global X Russell 2000 Covered Call ETF implements a Covered-Call "Income" Strategy over the Russell 2000. The fund structure extracts expensive fees and high trading costs in return for the promise of monthly dividend income. This dividend income presents itself as forced withdr...

Summary The National Bureau of Economic Research takes time to define periods of economic expansion and contraction - and they do so in hindsight; equity markets are not trading based on these characterizations. The low degree of difference between the S&P 500 Index and the WisdomTr...

Summary Since late 2022, the stock market pundits have been obsessed with a “soft landing”. The Fed is looking at the inflation figures coming in and they will need to keep interest rates higher for longer. The bond market has also been signaling that rates are headed high...

Summary New unemployment insurance claims have stabilized at a pace close to 200,000 per week. During the pandemic, consumption spending had outsized growth due to massive fiscal stimulus. The Fed raised rates and the yield curve inverted – an indicator of a potential future ...

Summary Economically speaking, bullish bets are mounting on a “no landing” scenario, which suggests the economy will avoid a recession entirely. Fed Funds futures are now pricing in a 21% chance the Fed will hike rates by 0.50% at the March meeting. The eventual revers...

Summary Many analysts suggest the economy may have a soft landing, or, rather, avoid a recession. While those employment reports remain strong, the rapid decline in growth has been a recession signal in and of itself. As we have stated earlier, the trend of the data is far more importan...

Summary America and the world keep dodging recessions, like they did last year. The IMF just raised its 2023 global growth rate projection to 2.9% (from 2.7% last October), and they raised their U.S. GDP projection from +1.0% to +1.4% now. A 1.4% growth rate is not very exciting, but it...

Summary This can be a challenging market for investors to navigate, especially since many are worried about a possible recession. Since pullbacks occur more periodically than investors would prefer, learning to invest through challenging periods is an important part of any investor ...

Summary The jobs report certainly seemed good, but everyone who’s been doing this a while knows that January is one of the months that often gets revised a lot. Markets have pushed out the recession start date quite a bit over the last two weeks. Eurodollar and SOFR futures - sho...