- Wednesday's star of the day Vanguard Total International Bond ETF appreciates 0.7% prior to Thanksgiving
- Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% Wednesday
- European markets are flat.
Trading is currently halted for Thanksgiving but will continue today. Leading equity indices in the US rose as Nasdaq gained 0.99% and closed at 11,300. S&P 500 ended the session at 4,027.26 after a 0.59% gain.
US traders are set to return to their desks today. Meanwhile, elsewhere in equities, European markets have no obvious direction. Asia-Pacific markets ended a mixed session today whilst ASX 200 goes up by 0.24%, reaching 7,259.5.
Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as highly important Core Durable Goods Orders data from United States beat analyst expectations of 0.1% with a reading of 0.5%.
On a negative note, the market received some disappointing news as United States Crude Oil Inventories released earlier showed a marked improvement to -3.69 million from the preceding data of -5.4 million, but fell short of the -1 million figure forecast by a consensus of market analysts.
Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States New Home Sales (Oct) released Wednesday with a figure of 632,000, while the previous figure was 588,000.
While most stocks did well Wednesday, some did better than others as Vanguard Total International Bond ETF trades at $49 having gained 0.7%. Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (up 0.591%).
Wednesday'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.
Risk-on mood helps VMBS post 0.59% gain Wednesday
It was more of the same for Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF Wednesday — after ending Tuesday at $45.7, Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF spiked to $46.05 Wednesday, dropped back to starting point range, and rallied again to $45.97.