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In my last two videos I talked about high yield bonds and preferred shares.

Not exact matches

When we talk about bond market liquidity it's important to understand that there are lots of different «pools» out there such as high yield bonds, munis, government bonds, etc..

Gundlach predicts that both high - yield bonds and a portfolio of mortgage - backed securities could return about 6 percent in 2013.

Total issuance of leveraged loans and high yield bonds is down by nearly $ 140 billion this year compared to 2014, to about $ 575 billion.

NEW YORK, Jan 18 - U.S. fund investors pulled $ 3.1 billion from high - yield «junk» bonds during the latest week, Lipper data showed on Thursday, offering new warning signs about risk appetite despite global markets» continuing triumph.

The SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond fund gathered more than $ 1.1 billion, or about half its total for the year, while the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond took in $ 603 million, pulling it out of negative territory for the full year.

There's reason to be concerned about bond vigilantes, who are no longer under «lock and key» and are free to push yields higher, Wall Street veteran Ed Yardeni told CNBC on Friday.

The $ 1.2 trillion market for U.S. junk bonds yields about 6.6 percent, double what's offered by higher - rated company debt, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch index data.

Bloomberg reported Thursday that after Draghi's bold words about protecting the euro last week, markets expect him to deliver some sort of drastic action to do so and to relieve pressure on bond yields, which have climbed steadily higher for Spain and Italy.

With market volatility hitting multi-decade lows, junk bond yields also at record lows, the median price / revenue ratio of S&P 500 constituents at a record high well - beyond 2000 levels, and the most strenuously overvalued, overbought, overbullish syndromes we define, I'm increasingly concerned about the potential for an abrupt «air pocket» in the prices of risky assets that could attend even a modest upward shift in risk premiums.

Japanese shares hit a two - month closing high on Tuesday with financials leading gains after U.S. bond yields spiked to four - year highs and as investors remained optimistic about upcoming earnings.

When I was a junk bond trader in the 1990's, high yield money would be pulled from the market abruptly and quickly, usually about a week before the stock market would undergo a big sell - off.

Yet we also see very strong inflows into junk bond funds, based on the belief that these high yields represent value rather than information about default probabilities.

The BofA Merrill Lynch high - yield index is trading at roughly 600 basis points versus government bonds, but if energy, metals and mining is excluded, it's about 80 basis points less in terms of spread.

For borrowers, leveraged loans offer two significant advantages over high - yield bonds: They are cheaper, by about 100 basis points on average at the moment.

Over the last four weeks, about $ 11.4 billion have come out of high - yield corporate bond funds that report weekly.

Recently my colleague wrote about the correlation between VIX (spot and futures) and two credit sectors (high - yield and emerging market bonds).

, but I think it's a mistake for risk averse or diversified investors to completely give up on high quality bonds because they're worried about poor returns from low yields.

For a number of years, concerns had been expressed about the underpricing of risk in a range of financial instruments and the associated search for yield as investors sought higher returns in non-standard financial products as the yield on more standard products such as government bonds was deemed to be inadequate.

Putting aside the performance of bonds during the bear market beginning in 1980 (both because the starting yields on Treasuries were so high but also because the bear market was relatively mild as the decline began from relatively low levels of valuation), what's interesting about the above chart is how dependably bonds protected a portfolio during equity bear markets.

This recent instability comes as yields have jumped from July record lows and investors have become concerned about the implications of higher bond yields for equity valuations.

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This is because investors are worried about rising interest rates, something that makes investment in utilities less attractive compared to bonds and other high yield stocks.

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CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS High - yield corporate bond issuance and trading have slowed considerably in the face of uncertainty about Federal Reserve monetary policy, at a time when chairman Ben Bernanke is about to hand over the reins to Janet Yellen,...

But I want to extend the conversation and talk about another fixed income sector, high yield bonds.

U.S. stocks rebounded in a volatile session, while the dollar cut losses and bond yields rose to session highs, as reports emerged about Bannon's departure.

Bonds rated as BB or lower often form the «High - Yield» investment space that I wrote about earlier.

For more information about bonds, see our Investor Bulletins on municipal bonds, corporate bonds, high - yield corporate bonds and interest rate risk.

While it is understandable that market participants are concerned about interest rate risk in a rising rate environment, it is interesting to note that the high yield bond sector stands out within the fixed income market with less rate sensitivity.

One of the biggest proponents of indexing, Rick Ferri, has a post up talking about why for muni bonds, high yield bonds and equity value it may make sense to move beyond index funds.

You also get to use tax - inefficient investments like REITs and high - yield bonds without having to worry about the tax implications.

The U.S. interest rate hike signals that the Fed is feeling optimistic about the economy and tends to cause bond yields on both sides of the border to move higher, said Rob McLister, founder of RateSpy.com.

A second reason to be cautious about high - yield bonds is that they don't provide much stability in a portfolio when you're likely to need it most.

If you sell out of high - yield bonds now because you're worried about defaults, you could miss out on potential gains if the economic growth improves or if rates stay the same.

Learn about the major risks for the bond market in 2016; interest rate increases, high - yield bond volatility and a flatter yield curve may be issues.

We are even less enthusiastic about high yield ETF investments in high - yield («junk») corporate bonds.

Our view on short - term U.S. rates rise fits with our expectation for a moderate rise in long - term rates — even with the greater uncertainty about the factors influencing bond yields, including high global savings.

(Real Estate Investment Trusts pay high dividend yields, which are taxed as income if held in an After - Tax account) What about bonds?

Learn about two high - yield bond ETFs that could be adversely affected if the trend of increasing corporate default rates continues.

So I still keep about 50 % of my fixed income (bonds, CDs, cash) in bond funds, and a good chunk in high - yield savings accounts and reward checking accounts.

Fixed - income ETFs manage about US$ 576 billion of global assets, ranging from Treasuries to high - yield corporate bonds and emerging - market debt.

If you are thinking about investing in high - yield bonds, you will also want to diversify your bond investments among several different issuers to minimize the possible impact of any single issuer's default.

Although there has been a variety of writers and talkers like myself who have talked about «canaries in the coal mines» — high yield bonds, small caps, commodities, foreign / emerging stocks — the discussions are largely dismissed when U.S. large - caps turn upward.

But because worries about global economic growth, inflation and the threat of central bank rate hikes are one catalyst for the climb of bond yields, some analysts worry that the move higher may prove sustained and inflict damage to the world's biggest economy.

I am admittedly only about 70/30 with the 30 comprising of preferred shares (20 %) with some REITs (5 %) and High Yield Bonds (5 %).

There's a lot of safe income available to retirees in high - yield bonds, but most never consider them because they know nothing about them.

Investors have to be careful about buying individual high - yield bonds.

It is about buying short term money (by means of selling short term bonds etc.) and selling that fund for a higher yield.

If we think of common stock as a bond then common stock has essentially paid a 12 % average annual coupon over the last 30 years while high yield bonds have only paid about a 8 % coupon.