Sentences with phrase «about junk bonds»

And hyperventilate about a junk bond - induced economic melt - down.

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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.

It may be that stock investors figure that most of the problems in the junk bond market are in the energy segment, which accounts for about 17 % of the market.

Internet entrepreneurs, Nobel laureates, Ivy League schools, textbook publishers, venture capitalists, corporate raiders, and junk - bond kings — just about everyone, it seems, is betting that the Internet plus education equals a very big sum.

There is an ongoing debate about the current state of the junk bond market and what it means for equities and, more broadly, the economy.

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.

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.

Moody's Investors Service, which downgraded Tesla's credit rating further into junk in March, still expects Tesla will need to raise about $ 2 billion selling equity, convertible bonds or debt, to offset the cash it burns this year and securities maturing through early 2019.

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.

What we're seeing here — make no mistake about it — is not a rational, justified, quantifiable response to lower interest rates, but rather a historic compression of risk premiums across every risky asset class, particularly equities, leveraged loans, and junk bonds.

Telsa shares finally get sold — from $ 360 down to $ 260 — Tesla bonds downgraded by rating agency to junk — Questions about production remain — Autopilot accident (why is autopilot allowed on major roads?)

He lost money because a lot of other funds have made money gambling on corporate junk bonds that are yielding about 6.5 % now.

Overall, default rates among junk - bond issuers are projected to move about 3 percent next year, according to Moody's Investors Service, up from 2.7 percent in the first 10 months of this year.

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

In a record - breaking six - month surge, riskier, U.S. «junk» bonds returned about 30 percent in the first half of the year.

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Some investors think about investment homes along a continuum similar to bonds, ranging from AAA (lower return, lower risk, more affluent neighborhoods) to junk bonds (higher return, higher risk, less affluent neighborhoods).

The Vanguard High - Yield (aka Junk) Bond mutual fund yields about 6.5 % (relatively high yield and perceived likelihood of defaults).

While the High Yield US Corporate Bond ETF appears to be a slightly interesting unique product for an investor looking into junk bonds, it is hard to get excited about the rest of BMO's new ETFs — iShares CDN Short Bond Index ETF (XSB) already provides exposure to short - term bonds and Claymore has the sector ETFs covered.

Investors were encouraged by the passage of the tax reform bill in the House, but remained on edge about the sell - off in junk bonds.

Junk bonds are the ultimate measure of how investors feel about taking risk.

By the end of September, star junk bond trader Thomas Malafronte had generated about US$ 250 million for Goldman over nine months.