Now is a bad time to buy corporate bonds, especially long-term bonds like those in the Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares. The yield spread between BAA corporate bonds and ...

The stock market has surged off its early April lows, and while the uptrend remains firmly intact, it’s worth remembering that no rally moves up in a straight line. Last week’s price action on the S&P ...

Investors were treated to a white-knuckle ride in the third quarter, but as the final three months of 2024 get underway, stocks are at record highs and bonds are solidly in the green. The Federal ...

Once confined to stocks, index investing is now prevalent with bonds. Their influence extends past the mainstream categories. In recent years, indexing has come to dominate the less common bond ...

Global bonds are telling many stories right now, some more dramatic than warranted. In reality, U.S. and international aggregate bond index ETFs have delivered respectable returns in 2025. It’s ...

The goal of this article is to compare two popular bond ETFs and argue for a very straightforward thesis: the Vanguard Long-Term Corporate Bond Index Fund ETF Shares (VCLT) and the Vanguard Long-Term ...

The investment seeks total return that corresponds with the total return of the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index. The fund invests at least 80% of its assets in bonds within its benchmark ...