- Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF gains 0.51% as the top gainer; currently at $47.69
- Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% yesterday
- European markets ended a mixed session yesterday whilst CAC is down by 0.85%, reaching 6,035.39
Before Monday's session: leading equity indices in the US rose as Dow Jones closed the day at 31,083, having gained 2.47%. S&P 500 ended the session at 3,752.75 after a 2.37% gain.
US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen Monday; meanwhile, European markets ended a mixed session yesterday whilst CAC decreases to 6,035.39 (down 0.85%). Asia-Pacific markets were down yesterday as ASX 200 is down by 0.8%, decreases to 6,676.8
With Q3 earnings season getting underway, around 82.35% of US companies have beaten market estimates so far. This past week, Johnson & Johnson and Bank of America published their earnings reports while Microsoft and Alphabet are scheduled to release their results in the coming days.
Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as United States Initial Jobless Claims came out at 214,000, better than analyst estimates of 230,000 and improving upon the previous reading of 226,000.
Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States Existing Home Sales (Sep) released Thursday with a figure of 4.71 million, while the previous figure was 4.78 million. United States Philadelphia Fed Manufacturing Index (Oct) came out at -8.7, while a consensus of analysts was expecting -5.
While most stocks did well yesterday, some did better than others as Vanguard Short-Term Inflation-Protected Securities ETF trades at $47.69 having gained 0.51%. Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (up 0.477%).
Yesterday's bullishness contained stock stragglers as iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF closed at $25.35 having dropped 0.04%.
IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF has been pretty quiet for the last a month, trading mostly flat and moving by only 0.02 cents on average.