A positive trading day has come to its end

Yesterday's star of the day Vanguard Total International Bond ETF appreciates 0.8% while outperforming its peers
Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% yesterday
FTSE increases to 7,870.57 (up 0.5%).

Yesterday's market activity meant that leading equity indices in the US rose as Dow Jones ended the session at 34,100 after a 0.8% gain. S&P 500 closed the day at 4,169.48, having gained 0.83%.

US markets are set to open Monday in around a day. In the meantime, upbeat European markets ended yesterday higher as FTSE increases to 7,870.57 (up 0.5%). Asia-Pacific markets closed higher yesterday whilst Nikkei added 1.4% to trade at 28,856.

3Rd quarter earnings season is mostly over, with FirstEnergy Corp & Carter's, Inc. releasing their earnings reports just this week.

On a negative note, the market received some disappointing news as data from United States concerning Pending Home Sales was released Thursday. Newly published figures emphasized continued decline from last month's figure of 0.8% to -5.2% this month. United States GDP fell short of the two projections, with new data of 1.1.

Today's rise takes place amid mixed market indicators — United States Core PCE Price Index (MoM) (Mar) released yesterday at 12:30 UTC with a figure of 0.3, while the previous figure was 0.3.

Also worthy of note, United States ISM Manufacturing PMI (Apr) scheduled to come out Monday.

While most assets did well yesterday, some did better than others as Vanguard Total International Bond ETF trades at $48.95 having gained 0.8%. Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (up 0.452%) is also performing well.

Yesterday'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 has been pretty quiet for the last a month, trading mostly flat and moving by only 0.02 cents on average.

Vanguard Total International Bond ETF | Up 0.8% to $48.95 yesterday

Vanguard Total International Bond ETF has fallen back around 5.43% from the significant high of $51.35 set 8 months ago.
Shareholders to attain annual dividend yield of 0.482% this year

Over the past 8 months, Vanguard Total International Bond ETF has retreated 5.43% from a noteworthy peak of $51.35. The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 5.9 cents per share on Monday, December 26th and was paid on Monday, March 6th — thereby generating a yield of 0.482% for all eligble investors.