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The Frankfurt Bond Market, 1988. A bond index or bond market index is a method of measuring the investment performance and characteristics of the bond market.There are numerous indices of differing construction that are designed to measure the aggregate bond market and its various sectors (government, municipal, corporate, etc.)
Citi World Broad Investment-Grade Bond Index (WorldBIG) Countries. Switzerland. Swiss Bond Index; ... Citi US High-Yield Market Index (Credit Suisse) First Boston ...
An important part of the bond market is the government bond market, because of its size and liquidity. Government bonds are often used to compare other bonds to measure credit risk . Because of the inverse relationship between bond valuation and interest rates (or yields), the bond market is often used to indicate changes in interest rates or ...
The Bloomberg US Aggregate Bond Index, or the Agg, is a broad base, market capitalization-weighted bond market index representing intermediate term investment grade bonds traded in the United States. Investors frequently use the index as a stand-in for measuring the performance of the US bond market .
The J.P.Morgan Emerging Markets Bond Index Global ("EMBI Global") tracks total returns for traded external debt instruments in the emerging markets, and is an expanded version of the JPMorgan EMBI+. As with the EMBI+, the EMBI Global includes U.S.dollar-denominated Brady bonds , loans, and Eurobonds with an outstanding face value of at least ...
The iBoxx bond market indices are transparent, rules-based fixed income indices that are primarily used by passive and active professional investors as well as investment banks. iBoxx offers broad benchmarks used to evaluate investment performance and to conduct research, as well as liquid indices used as an underlying for tradable products ...
Pages in category "Bond market indices" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. ... S&P Municipal Bond Index; Swiss Bond Index; V.
The Salomon Broad Investment Grade Index (known as the Salomon BIG or Citigroup BIG) is a common American Bond index, akin to the S&P 500 for stocks, originally owned by Salomon Brothers, run by its successor, Citigroup and now by FTSE Russell.