Sentences with phrase «because junk credit»

In hindsight, not a good argument, not because Treasury yields fell, but because junk credit spreads are more critical to private equity than treasury and high - grade yields.

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Beyond the requirements that liquidity and regulators impose on us, we will purchase currency - related securities only if they offer the possibility of unusual gain — either because a particular credit is mispriced, as can occur in periodic junk - bond debacles, or because rates rise to a level that offers the possibility of realizing substantial capital gains on high - grade bonds when rates fall.

The investor should note that vehicles that invest in lower - rated debt securities (commonly referred to as junk bonds) involve additional risks because of the lower credit quality of the securities in the portfolio.

Foreclosure is of course bad for homeowners, but it is even worse for banks, because of the financial pyramid of credit erected on the past decade's worth of junk mortgages.

High yield bonds are better known as junk bonds because the credit quality of the underlying bond issuer is low.

Aside from that, keep it short and high quality, because the long end isn't acting well, and the junk credit stress is starting to arrive.

High - yield bonds (sometimes referred to as junk bonds) typically offer above - market coupon rates and yields because their issuers have credit ratings that are below investment grade: BB or lower from Standard & Poor's; Ba or lower from Moody's.

The credit card banks are doing this because in recent years junk debt buyers (JDBs) took to blanketing consumers who had long overdue credit card debt with lawsuits.

Because that's how much junk mail the average adult receives each year, from the credit card offers to the sweepstakes entries and catalogs, and it really adds up; in wasted time, paper, water and energy.

My friend, Scott Myers, is the king of self - storage, he has hundreds of units starting from scratch with no money or credit and has built an empire by buying and redeveloping or by buying land and building self - storage units on it, which has always been a hot commercial component in the market because even when people use their homes, they still need a place to store their Junk.