IShares MBS ETF was the biggest decliner today after giving up 0.7% As things stand, Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (down 0.684%) and iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) are underperforming today
FTSE ascends by 0.31%, reaching 7,754.62.

Ahead of Monday's session: leading equity indices in the US declined as Nasdaq lost 0.35% and ended the session at 12,300. S&P 500 closed at 4,124, a 0.16% change.

US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen Monday; meanwhile, European markets closed higher today whilst FTSE is up by 0.31%, hitting 7,754.62. Asia-Pacific markets ended a mixed session today whilst Nikkei rises to 29,400 (up 0.9%).

National Grid plc & Take-Two Interactive Software Inc due to release their earnings reports within the following week.

Market's down-tick coincides with some negative macro data published earlier as United States Producer Price Index released earlier showed a marked improvement to 0.2% from the preceding data of -0.4%, but fell short of the 0.3% figure forecast by a consensus of market analysts. United States Initial Jobless Claims fell short of the 245,000 projections, with new data of 264,000.

Markets are trading lower today despite some positive data 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 bearishness meant that iShares MBS ETF lost 0.7% today before closing at $94.5. Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF (down 0.684%), iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF (down 0.039%) also underperformed today.

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.

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.