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How Low Can Junk Bond Spreads Go?

Posted: January 29, 2013 at 11:55 am

24/7 Wall St. tracks the spreads that corporations have to pay above Treasury rates to fund their cost of borrowing. This is one key barometer for measuring the market's risk ...
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Junk Bond Spreads Continue to Tighten, Another Yield Bubble Starting to Form

Posted: January 11, 2013 at 10:31 am

If the spread of junk bonds keeps contracting as investors clamor for yield in an environment where yields are so low, they are going to be priced where investment-grade bonds ...
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Option Trading Shows Caution in Junk Bond Values (JNK, HYG, HYV, DHF)

Posted: October 10, 2012 at 10:00 am

It is no secret that we have grown cautious in the area of high-yield corporate debt, also known more commonly as junk bonds. Our concerns are not the underlying credit ...
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The Junk Bond Bubble May Have Peaked (JNK, HYG, VYM, PHK, HYV)

Posted: October 3, 2012 at 11:48 am

Dividend and income oriented investors need to be on the lookout as of now as the formation of a bubble among the high dividend and high-yield stocks and funds appears to ...
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Junk Bond Dividend Chase May Have Peaked With Big Fund Premiums (JNK, HYG, HYD, HYV, DHF, PHK, HIX)

Posted: August 10, 2012 at 1:16 pm

We have been talking about dividend bubbles forming for about two weeks as of now.  Can the bubbles continue to inflate?  Sure.  But you better take a look at the ...
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Junk Bond Spreads Getting Tighter and Tighter To Treasuries (JNK, HYG, HYV)

Posted: August 8, 2012 at 12:22 pm

Junk bonds, or those high-yield bonds which are under BBB- at S&P or under Baa3 at Moody's, have seen one massive rally since the lows of the summer.  Some may wonder ...
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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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Are Junk Bonds Being Hit Too Hard? (JNK, HYG, PHK, MSY, HIO, HYV)

Posted: May 18, 2012 at 8:19 am

Bonds of the Treasury variety may be the safe haven against a falling stock market.  They hardly pay anything in yield, but they haven't yet faced a meltdown. The woes ...
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Junk Bonds At Critical Juncture, Dividends & Yields Galore (JNK, HYG, PHB, HYV, PHT, PHK, AWF, HIX, HIO)

Posted: January 20, 2012 at 11:11 am

Junk bonds, or high-yield bonds are at a level that all income investors need to be paying attention to.  After a big recovery in the sector and after the markets ...
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Are Record Junk Bond Defaults & Outflows Growing Into Opportunities? (PHK, HIX, HYV, HYG, JNK)

Posted: October 18, 2008 at 6:01 am

The recent turmoil in the credit markets has created problems for issues of the highest quality debt all the way down to the junkiest of junk bonds which trade at ...
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