Showing posts with label VWESX. Show all posts
Showing posts with label VWESX. Show all posts
Saturday, August 2, 2025

US Treasury yields retreated 3% from their July average in the aggregate on Friday in a flight to safety

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 The July average yield of the aggregate of eleven US Treasury issues was 4.2927. Friday's 3% retreat left the aggregate at 4.1636. Yiel...
Saturday, July 5, 2025

Performance of some older Vanguard funds since inception, through June 30, 2025

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In chronological order:   Wellington Fund, VWELX, inception July 1, 1929: 8.35% Windsor Fund, VWNDX, inception October 23, 1958: 11.24% U. S...
Saturday, April 12, 2025

Week over week US Treasury yields in the aggregate popped 5.8% on net to an average 4.335% after declining for months from 4.5 to 4.0 and everybody's freaking out like this hasn't happened, what, six times now in the current era

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Most of the pissing and moaning is from investors who pulled the bond trigger too soon, plowed into fixed income, and got burned badly becau...
Monday, September 25, 2023

US Treasury yields pushed to new cycle highs last week despite another Fed interest rate pause

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 Cash was about the only thing which did better week over week on Friday. Treasuries and bonds generally took a beating, as did stocks. The ...
Sunday, September 17, 2023

Let's check in on the US Treasury yield curve and year to date performance of selected Vanguard funds

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The UST yield curve aggregate closed up a net 0.68% week over week on 9/15, to an average of 5.006923, the first Friday close this cycle in ...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Long-term investment grade bonds for long term investors vs. the S&P 500

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Return for VWESX, Vanguard's Long-Term Investment Grade Bond Fund, inception July 1973-December 2022: 7.48%. Return for S&P 500, ave...
Tuesday, October 18, 2022

Long US Treasury and Investment Grade bonds both made new 52-week lows again last night

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Yippee-ki-yay.  
Tuesday, September 27, 2022

The Great Long Term Investment Grade Bond Debacle of 2022

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Safe havens aren't supposed to do this. Long term return for VWESX since inception in 1973 near the end of 2018 reached north of 8%. In ...
Saturday, September 24, 2022

Two conditions need to develop before buying bonds

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. . . the trend in the bond market . . . still looks bearish. ... As yields rise and inflation eases, the relative allure of bond payouts b...
Saturday, January 4, 2014

Vanguard's Worst Performing Bond Funds In 2013

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Long Term Treasury Fund, VUSTX:                          -13.03% Long Term Government Index Fund, VLGSX:     -12.74% Long Term Bond Index Fu...