VXUS News and Press, Vanguard Total International Stock From 12/19/21

International equities are cheap and offer investors strong potential returns. VXUS is a simple international equity index ETF and could outperform in the coming months and years. An overview of the fund follows. For further details see: VXUS: International Equity Index ...

We see 2022 heralding a new market regime by delivering global stock gains and bond losses for a second year in a row - a first in about half a century. Stocks rallied back to near record levels and yields rose last week as worries of Omicron dissipated. China’s central bank lo...

We may not know what the newest COVID variant holds, but it may not actually matter. The economy is already questionable and has been more and more for quite some time already. In other words, the issue at hand isn’t necessarily omicron nor really a “growth scare”...

The S&P 500 was down 2.2% last week, which, in normal times, would be barely worth a mention. But in today’s speculative market, that qualifies as a correction. The first two quarters of this year were a big rebound, but last quarter was a bummer with the emergence of the D...

It feels as if the 'Santa Claus Rally' has started early this year. If history is of any indication, we're due for another ~4% over the next 8 weeks. Nonetheless, things are getting more and more bubbly, and the combination of Tapering, higher inflation, and higher rates is anything b...

A "5% rule" withdrawal strategy on $1 million invested in a total US stock market index fund in 2000 would have run out of money by 2018. A similar failure would have occurred with a total international stock portfolio over the same period, but not with emerging markets, US dividend g...

For the second consecutive month, mutual fund investors injected $6.9 billion into conventional funds for September. Fixed income funds (+$35.5 billion) witnessed net inflows for the seventeenth month in a row, while money market funds (+$2.6 billion) experienced net inflows for the s...

We move to a cautious outlook on global equities. During September, we are continuing to see risk factors build while equity valuations remain at extraordinarily high levels. While global earnings estimates for 2021 have provided a strong tailwind for markets in 2021, this impetus is ...

Vanguard Total International Stock ETF (NASDAQ:VXUS) - $0.3565. Payable Sep 23; for shareholders of record Sep 21; ex-div Sep 20. For further details see: Vanguard Total International Stock ETF declares quarterly distribution of $0.3565

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