Investment grade credit spreads in CDS gapped out 4.5 bp on the IBOXX 7 deal.
US and CAD
investment grade credit spreads, the difference in yield between corporates and Canadas, tightened by.3 % and US high yield bonds tightened by 1 %.
Not exact matches
Finally, it was a banner year for
credit, with
spreads narrowing across
investment grade, high yield and emerging markets.
More broadly, he says that while corporate
credit may benefit from aspects of tax reform (i.e., better earnings growth from the corporate tax cuts, modestly lower
investment grade supply as repatriation becomes reality), he does not see tax cuts at this point in the cycle as a bullish driver of
credit spreads.
There was a weaker correlation between the ability to trade (daily trading volume, issue size and frequency of zero - trading days) and
credit spreads for both
investment -
grade and high - yield markets.
For example, by comparing a group of corporate bonds (like
investment grade corporate bonds) vs. treasuries, you get a picture of where the average
investment grade bond
credit spread currently stands.
This event illustrates how central banks have distorted the
credit markets and allowed inferior borrowers access
credit at
investment grade spreads.
This flight to quality movement also impacted
credit spreads, which widened for both
investment grade and high yield corporate bonds, negatively impacting the returns of bonds in those sectors.
What's more, just like the September - October pullback of 2014, market internals have been deteriorating at a noteworthy pace, whether one is looking at waning breadth of bullish stock participation or widening
credit spreads between
investment grade and higher yielding corporates / junk corporates.
Credit spreads can continue to narrow (supported by U.S. tax reform, which might result in more limited high yield and
investment grade supply), but we don't anticipate a repeat of the Great Narrowing of 2017.
There was a weaker correlation between the ability to trade (daily trading volume, issue size and frequency of zero - trading days) and
credit spreads for both
investment -
grade and high - yield markets.
In the next few blogs, we will detail our approach to and back - tested results of employing
credit spread (value) and volatility as factors in order to systematically construct a portfolio of U.S.
investment -
grade corporate bonds.
The S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index presents a unique
credit alternative to bridge the gap between existing
investment grade, which offers
spread levels of around 150 bps, and high - yield corporate
credit, which offers north of 600 bps in
spread.
Finally, it was a banner year for
credit, with
spreads narrowing across
investment grade, high yield and emerging markets.
Since the financial crisis,
investment grade corporate bond indexes have reached record highs, 1 and
credit spreads have tightened significantly,» said Michael L. Sapir, Chairman and CEO of ProShare Advisors LLC, ProShares»
investment advisor.