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J.P. Morgan Says to Buy These Stocks as High-Yield Spreads Narrow

Posted: May 3, 2013 at 8:55 am

As the stock market keeps hitting new highs, the spreads of high-yield bonds and junk bonds has been narrowing and narrowing. We even recently highlighted that these spreads were reaching ...
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Corporate Bonds: The Good and The Bad

Posted: November 16, 2012 at 12:35 pm

In the third calendar quarter of 2012, the share of corporate bonds that were downgraded totaled 1.3% of issuances, flat with the share downgraded in the second quarter. The share ...
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More Defaults on High-Yield Bonds — Fitch Ratings

Posted: September 24, 2012 at 10:54 am

The trailing 12-month default rate on high-yield bonds in August rose to 2.2% from 2% in July, according to Fitch Ratings. The ratings firm expects the default rate to end ...
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More Junk Bonds, More Defaults — Fitch Ratings

Posted: August 20, 2012 at 1:31 pm

Even though the trailing 12-month default rate on high-yield bonds in July was a little better than the June rate, Fitch Ratings expects the default rate to end the year ...
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Opportunity & Risk: Junk Bond Spreads Nearing 700 Basis Points (HYG, JNK, PHB, HYV, HIO, PHK, JPM, EPD)

Posted: June 1, 2012 at 8:05 am

While everyone remains focused on the jobs report and the European meltdown, investors are having a harder and harder time finding real investment returns.  Germany actually saw negative yields briefly ...
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Dividend Alternatives From High Yield Funds (HYG, JNK, PHIGX, USHYX, DVHYX, HIO, DHF, HYT)

Posted: June 8, 2011 at 8:06 am

We have been screening our universe of the high-yield dividends for investors now that investors are growing more concerned each day and each week.   Now we are looking at junk ...
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