A positive trading day has come to its end

• Top laggard Vanguard Total International Bond ETF gave up 29 cents, or 0.59% today IShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (down 0.378%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed today.
• CAC is up by 1.86%, hitting 7,141.57.

Ahead of tomorrow's session: markets had an interesting day today; S&P 500 closed the day at 3,920.56, having gained 1.68%. Nasdaq ended the session at 11,428 after a 2.14% gain.

US markets are currently closed but will resume tomorrow in around 16 hours time. European markets closed higher today whilst CAC leaps up by 1.86%, reaching 7,141.57. Asia-Pacific markets were down today as KOSPI Composite Index is currently down 2.56% and trading around 2,349.

Pinduoduo and UroGen Pharma Ltd. due to release their earnings reports within the following week.

Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States Participation Rate (Feb) released yesterday at 13:30 UTC with a figure of 118.3, while the previous figure was 62.4.

Furthermore, the market is looking at United States Retail Sales projected to decline to -0.3% while previous data was 3%; data will be released tomorrow at 12:30 UTC. Tomorrow at 12:30 UTC data for United States Core Retail Sales will be released, with an expected decline to -0.1% from the preceding figure of 2.3%. Projections for United States Producer Price Index are set for a continuation of decline with 0.3% while previous data was 0.7%; data will be released tomorrow at 12:30 UTC.

Today's bullishness contained stragglers as Vanguard Total International Bond ETF closed at $48.63 having dropped 0.59%. IShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (down 0.378%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed today.

The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 16.2 cents per share on Tuesday, February 28th and was paid on Tuesday, March 7th — thereby generating a yield of 0.793% for all eligble investors.

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.