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ThinkstockOne of the victims of the recent market trends has been the junk bond, or high-yield, market. Financial media and market…
ThinkstockFed Chair Janet Yellen offered a bit of a surprise in her semiannual Monetary Policy Report in front of Congress…
Thinkstock24/7 Wall St. has not been covering the junk bond market as much of late because spreads were in a…
Frank Golhen, via Wikimedia Commons24/7 Wall St. tracks the spreads that corporations have to pay above Treasury rates to fund…
If the spread of junk bonds keeps contracting as investors clamor for yield in an environment where yields are so…
It is no secret that we have grown cautious in the area of high-yield corporate debt, also known more commonly…
Jon OggDividend and income oriented investors need to be on the lookout as of now as the formation of a bubble…
We have been talking about dividend bubbles forming for about two weeks as of now. Can the bubbles continue to…
Junk bonds, or those high-yield bonds which are under BBB- at S&P or under Baa3 at Moody’s, have seen one massive…
IndexUniverse.com has now released its July 2012 ETF Fund Flows data and the report is showing some key changes for…
Investors cannot make any money in the bond market right now merely by buying and holding Treasury bonds forever. The…
While everyone remains focused on the jobs report and the European meltdown, investors are having a harder and harder time…
Bonds of the Treasury variety may be the safe haven against a falling stock market. They hardly pay anything in…
Jon OggSo, just two weeks ago it looked as though “Sell in May and go away!” was not going to…
The world of high-yield corporate bonds and the world of investment-grade corporate bonds may be nearing another near-term inflection point. …
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