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June 30, 2023
- Top laggard Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF gave up 43 cents, or 0.93% yesterday IShares MBS ETF (down 0.863%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed yesterday.
- Asia-Pacific markets are down as Nikkei goes down to 33,000 (down 0.7%).
Before today's session: markets had an interesting day yesterday; Dow Jones gained 0.8% and closed at 34,122. S&P 500 closed the day at 4,396.44, having gained 0.45%.
US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen today; meanwhile, Asia-Pacific markets are currently lower as trading gets underway. European markets ended a mixed session yesterday whilst FTSE slides down to 7,471.69 (down 0.38%).
The earnings season is coming to an end and Constellation Brands Inc and MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc. have release their reports.
Uptick coincides with some positive signs published earlier as highly important GDP data from United States beat analyst expectations of 1.4 with a reading of two. Highly important Initial Jobless Claims data from United States beat analyst expectations of 266,000 with a reading of 239,000.
On a negative note, the market received some disappointing news as United States Pending Home Sales fell short of the -0.5% projections, with new data of -2.7%.
Also worthy of note, United States Core PCE Price Index (MoM) (May) scheduled to come out today at 12:30 UTC.
Yesterday's bullishness contained stragglers as noticeable risk-on sentiment wasn't enough to prevent Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF giving up 43 cents, or 0.93%, before ending the session at $45.83. IShares MBS ETF (down 0.863%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed yesterday.
IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF | Ended yesterday's session at $25.35
Following a month of flat trade, Pointing in a similar direction, yesterday's session was more of the same — iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF moves 0.04% to close at $25.35 yesterday.
