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Bond markets are refusing to cooperate, however, as last week’s fixed-income sell-off carried into Monday. The yield on the benchmark 10-year Treasury, which rises as the price of the bond falls ...
“[A]fter a sharp increase in bond yields this year, new and potentially less risky alternatives are emerging in fixed income: U.S. investment grade corporate bonds yield almost 6%, have little ...
Diversification: Corporate bonds come in a wide variety of types, depending on maturity (short, medium and long) and rating quality (investment-grade or high-yield). A bond ETF allows you to buy ...
If the corporate debt bubble bursts, the bonds would be repriced, resulting in a massive loss by the mutual funds, high-yield funds, pension funds, and endowments with corporate bond assets. As with the 2008 crisis, this may result in increased caution by lenders and the shrinking of the entire bond market , resulting in higher rates for ...
New bonds pay more and old bonds are worth less. This is the plain English version of what's going on in the bond market right now. Translated to finance-speak, bond yields are on the rise while ...
Moody's Aaa Corporate Bond, also known as "Moody's Aaa" for short is an investment bond that acts as an index of the performance of all bonds given an Aaa rating by Moody's Investors Service. This corporate bond is often used in macroeconomics as an alternative to the federal ten-year Treasury Bill as an indicator of the interest rate.
For investors looking to investment-grade corporate debt, a good news/bad news dichotomy is currently in play. The bad news is that yields are low. The good news is that fundamentals are strong ...
High grade corporate bonds usually trade at market interest rate but low grade corporate bonds usually trade on credit spread. [12] Credit spread is the difference in yield between the corporate bond and a Government bond of similar maturity or duration (e.g. for US Dollar corporates, US Treasury bonds).