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“[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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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).
The current yield, interest yield, income yield, flat yield, market yield, mark to market yield or running yield is a financial term used in reference to bonds and other fixed-interest securities such as gilts. It is the ratio of the annual interest payment and the bond's price:
The BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Index (H0A0) is a bond index for high-yield corporate bonds. [1] It is administered by Bank of America Merrill Lynch.The Master II is a measure of the broad high yield market, unlike the Merrill Lynch BB/B Index, which excludes lower-rated securities. [2]
Monica Erickson, DoubleLine Capital portfolio manager of investment grade corporate bonds, assesses the state of the corporate bond market and its areas of weakness and profitability for investors.
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.