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Junk bonds don’t seem quite so junky anymore. US investors are piling into an asset class that has grown a little safer in ...

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That means corporate bond prices fall, so corporate bond yields rise. High-yield (junk) bonds have the highest default risk, and default expectations have more influence on their prices.

Highlights,Bonds with speculative credit ratings of BB (S&P) or Ba (Moody’s) or lower.,Offer higher yields to compensate for increased credit risk.,Rated by Standard & Poor’s and Moody’s Investor ...

Prices have also dropped sharply on speculative-grade (also known as “junk”) corporate bonds, leading to a widening gap between their yields and those of U.S. Treasurys. As of Monday ...

By contrast, the spread between Bloomberg’s index of pan-European high-yield bonds and the benchmark has shrunk to about 320 basis points. Junk-bond spreads are a gauge of investors ...

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But Fridson calls that “grasping at straws” and notes that the high-yield bond market “sports a risk premium grossly inadequate for its current risk.” US junk spreads widened earlier this ...

JAPAN’S 10-year government bond yield reaches its highest since June 2009 at 1.5 per cent as German bunds suffered their worst sell-off since the months following the fall of the Berlin Wall. The ...

MUMBAI, March 5 (Reuters) - Indian government bond yields consolidated on Wednesday after the benchmark bond yield rose above the 6.75% mark to its highest in over six weeks as broader sentiment ...