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April 02, 2023
- SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF gains 0.93% as the top gainer; currently at $24.84
- Top laggard iShares Trust – iShares iBonds Dec 2021 Term Treasury ETF gave up 1 cents, or 0.04% Friday
- CAC added 0.81% to trade at 7,322.39.
A reminder of where Friday ended before tomorrow's session begins: markets closed higher Friday, as Dow Jones gained 1.26% and closed at 33,274. S&P 500 closed the day at 4,109.31, having gained 1.44%.
US markets are now currently closed and set to reopen tomorrow; meanwhile, upbeat European markets ended Friday higher as CAC is up by 0.81%, hitting 7,322.39. Asia-Pacific markets closed higher Friday whilst ASX 200 rises to 7,177.8 (up 0.78%).
While most assets did well Friday, some did better than others as SPDR Bloomberg Barclays Short Term High Yield Bond ETF trades at $24.84 having gained 0.93%. Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF (up 0.415%) is also performing well.
Friday'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.
Friday's gains added to Vanguard Short-Term Corporate Bond ETF's bullish trend that has lasted for 4 days so far, during which it increased a total of $1.16. The fund disclosed a quarterly dividend of 16.4 cents per share on Monday, December 26th and was paid on Monday, March 6th — thereby generating a yield of 0.861% for all eligble investors.
