Today's star of the day Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF appreciates 0.73% while outperforming its peers
Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% today
European markets were down today as CAC is down by 0.49%, slumps to 7,361.2

Today's market activity meant that leading equity indices in the US rose as Nasdaq ended the session at 12,300 after a 1.04% gain. S&P 500 gained 0.45% and closed at 4,137.64.

US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen tomorrow; meanwhile, European markets were down today as CAC is down by 0.49%, reaching 7,361.2 Asia-Pacific markets closed lower today.

Take-Two Interactive Software Inc & WalkMe Ltd. due to release their earnings reports within the following week.

Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as highly important Crude Oil Inventories data from United States beat analyst expectations of -917,000 with a reading of 2.95 million.

Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States Consumer Price Index released today at 12:30 UTC with a figure of 4.9%, while the previous figure was 5%. United States Core Consumer Prices came out at 0.4%, while a consensus of analysts was expecting 0.4%.

Today's gains have given market bulls further impetus to expect strong macro data going forward, such as United States Producer Price Index is projected to outperform its last figure with 0.3%. It previously stood at -0.5%; data will be released tomorrow at 12:30 UTC.

Furthermore, the market is looking at United States Initial Jobless Claims expected to decline to 245,000 while its preceding data was 242,000, data will be available tomorrow at 12:30 UTC.

While most assets did well today, some did better than others as Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF trades at $46.66 having gained 0.73%. Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (up 0.394%) is also performing well.

Today's bullishness contained 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 | Ended today's session at $25.35

With around a month of flat trade under its belt, Pointing in a similar direction, today's session was more of the same — iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF moves 0.04% to close at $25.35 today.

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF | Closed +0.73% at $46.66

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF hit a significant low of $43.58 around 6 months ago, but has since recovered 6.29%.
Shareholders to attain annual dividend yield of 1.05% this year

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF hit a significant low of $43.58 around 6 months ago, but has since recovered 6.29%. The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 12.2 cents per share on Thursday, April 27th and was paid on Thursday, May 4th — thereby generating a yield of 1.05% for all eligble investors.