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IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF was the biggest decliner yesterday after giving up 0.04%

Ahead of today's session: leading equity indices in the US declined as Dow Jones shed 1.66% and closed at 32,255. After dropping 1.85%, S&P 500 closed at 3,918.32.

US markets are currently closed but will resume today in around 8 hours time. Asia-Pacific markets were down today as ASX 200 dips to 7,144.7 (down 2.28%).

3Rd quarter earnings season is mostly over, with Asana, Inc. & ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. releasing their earnings reports just this week.

Market's down-tick coincides with some negative macro data published earlier as Initial Jobless Claims in United States fell short of market expectations (195,000) with a reading of 211,000, continuing the decline from the previous figure of 190,000. United States Crude Oil Inventories published Wednesday came out at -1.69 million, falling short of the 395,000 projections and continuing its decline from the previous 1.17 million figure.

Amid the market gloom, United States JOLTs Job Openings (Jan) came out at 10.82 million, while a consensus of analysts was expecting 10.5 million.

With markets struggling for positive sentiment, upcoming macro data could potentially attract buyers in the market as as things stand, upcoming United States Non Farm Payrolls data is projected to fall short of market expectations with newly published data of 205,000, following on from the preceding figure of 517,000. New data is set to be published today at 13:30 UTC.

Furthermore, United States Unemployment Rate figure is projected at 3.4. It previously stood at 3.4; data will be released today at 13:30 UTC.

While markets are generally down so far today, some assets outperformed such as Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF gained 0.66% to reach $45.55. IShares 1-3 Year Treasury Bond ETF (up 0.323%) is also performing well.

Yesterday's bearishness meant that iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF lost 0.04% yesterday before closing at $25.35.

IShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF | Ended yesterday's session at $25.35

With around a month of flat trade under its belt,

Trading mostly sideways for 2 years.

Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF | Up 0.66% to $45.55 yesterday

1 year, 1 day ago Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF reached a significant high of $51.06 but has consequently lost 11.38% since then.
Shareholders to attain annual dividend yield of 1.04% this year

Having set a significant high of $51.06 1 year, 1 day ago, Vanguard Mortgage-Backed Securities ETF is trading 11.38% lower. The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 11.8 cents per share on Monday, December 26th and was paid on Monday, March 6th — thereby generating a yield of 1.04% for all eligble investors.