Sentences with phrase «corporate bonds rated baa»

Corporate bonds rated Baa or triple - B, the low end of investment grade by Moody's and Standard & Poor's designations, offer the biggest yield premium since the early 1930s, notes RBC Capital Markets.

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The BAA spread refers to the yield on corporate bonds above the rate on comparable maturity Treasury debt, and is a market - based estimate of the amount of fear in the bond market.

The Fund pursues its investment objective by investing primarily in fixed income securities, such as U.S. Treasury bonds, notes and bills, Treasury inflation - protected securities, U.S. Treasury Strips, U.S. Government agency securities (primarily mortgage - backed securities), and investment grade corporate debt rated BBB or higher by Standard & Poor's Global Ratings or Baa or higher by Moody's Investors Service, Inc., or having an equivalent rating from another independent rating organization.

Key credit spreads were widening, such as those between intermediate - term treasury bonds and riskier corporate bonds in funds like iShares Baa - Ba Rated Corporate Bond ETF (BATS: QLTB) or SPDR High Yield Bocorporate bonds in funds like iShares Baa - Ba Rated Corporate Bond ETF (BATS: QLTB) or SPDR High Yield BoCorporate Bond ETF (BATS: QLTB) or SPDR High Yield Bond (JNK).

This is when the yield of long - dated Baa corporate bonds (seasoned) equals the prime lending rate that banks charge.

The indices used for each asset class are: core real estate, NCREIF Property Index, listed REITs, FTSE NAREIT Equity REITs Index; government bonds, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Treasury Master; corporate bonds Baa - rated, Barclays US Aggregate Corporate Intermediate; large - capitalization stocks, Russell 1000 index; small - cap stocks, Russell 2000 Index; commodities, S&P GSCI Commodicorporate bonds Baa - rated, Barclays US Aggregate Corporate Intermediate; large - capitalization stocks, Russell 1000 index; small - cap stocks, Russell 2000 Index; commodities, S&P GSCI CommodiCorporate Intermediate; large - capitalization stocks, Russell 1000 index; small - cap stocks, Russell 2000 Index; commodities, S&P GSCI Commodity Index.

Deviations from the historically normal 80 - 180 bp spread between REIT dividend yields and Baa - rated corporate bond yields have generally provided a surprisingly reliable valuation signal and a surprisingly reliable predictor for future performance.

At the beginning of the year, though, the Baa - rated corporate bond yield was just 4.23 percent, meaning that the REIT - Baa spread was extraordinarily small at just 29 basis points.

To take the extreme case, it's very rare for the Baa - rated corporate bond yield to be less than the average REIT dividend yield: that has happened only at times when investors were most dramatically avoiding REITs, most recently in March 2009 at the lowest point of the Great Financial Crisis — and in the 12 months following that episode, those investors who bucked the market and bought into REITs were rewarded with total returns that exceeded 100 percent.