Below you'll find the SPY and BofA Merrill Lynch US High Yield Master II Option - Adjusted Spread (a high yield
bond spread index) plotted against SPY.
Not exact matches
Last week,
spreads on the Morningstar Corporate
Bond Index, an investment - grade corporate bond gauge, and the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index, shot hig
Bond Index, an investment - grade corporate
bond gauge, and the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master Index, shot hig
bond gauge, and the BofA Merrill Lynch High Yield Master
Index, shot higher.
1: Widening credit
spreads: An increase over the past 6 months in either the
spread between commercial paper and 3 - month Treasury yields, or between the Dow Corporate
Bond Index yield and 10 - year Treasury yields.
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.
In their October 2017 paper entitled «Value Timing: Risk and Return Across Asset Classes», Fahiz Baba Yara, Martijn Boons and Andrea Tamoni examine the power of value
spreads to predict returns for individual U.S. equities, global stock
indexes, global government
bonds, commodities and currencies.
After reaching a year - to - date low Option Adjusted
Spread (OAS) of 378 bps on May 8, the spread for the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index reversed dire
Spread (OAS) of 378 bps on May 8, the
spread for the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index reversed dire
spread for the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate
Bond Index reversed direction.
For example, based on our analysis using J.P. Morgan
index data, the EMBIG
index's 7.25 percent performance in 2014 is owed to a -0.35 percent
spread return combined with a 7.6 percent Treasury return, as U.S. rates dropped significantly (remember that when interest rates fall,
bond prices rise, and vice versa).
Abstracting from changes in the composition of corporate
bond indices,
spreads between yields on government and corporate
bonds have shown a small net decline over the past three months (Graph 48).
CNH is now rated investment grade by two of the three ratings agencies, making its
bonds eligible for investment - grade
indexes, which will lead to lower
spreads.
Our updated calculation of the debt
spread matches a company's credit rating to the yield on an
index of similarly rated corporate
bonds.
Signal five: JP Morgan Credit Appetite
Index, where zero represents minimum appetite (widest
spreads, positive for U.S. government
bonds) and 100 represents maximum appetite (tightest
spreads, negative for U.S. government
bonds).
The cost of buying default protection on the largest
bond market borrowers in the S&P 500 is tracked by the S&P / ISDA U.S. 150 Credit
Spread Index and has fallen to lows which can be an Read more -LSB-...]
Since certain loans and
bonds may commonly be quoted in relation to some
index or underlying security, they will often be quoted as a
spread over (or under) the
index.
Exhibit 2 shows the yield
spread of various dividend
indices versus the yield - to - maturity of the S&P U.S. Treasury
Bond 7 - 10 Year
Index since Dec. 17, 2015.
Bond yield spreads are very highly correlated with the implied volatilities of stocks, and the yield spreads on bond indexes are highly correlated with the implied volatility on broad market equity indexes, like the
Bond yield
spreads are very highly correlated with the implied volatilities of stocks, and the yield
spreads on
bond indexes are highly correlated with the implied volatility on broad market equity indexes, like the
bond indexes are highly correlated with the implied volatility on broad market equity
indexes, like the VIX.
Chart 1: The S&P 500 BB High Yield Corporate
Bond Index spread to the S&P 500 Investment Grade Corporate
Bond Index:
The duration matched
spread to Treasuries or the OAS (Option Adjusted Spread) for both the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index and the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index are tighter by 16 and 33 basis points respect
spread to Treasuries or the OAS (Option Adjusted
Spread) for both the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index and the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index are tighter by 16 and 33 basis points respect
Spread) for both the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate
Bond Index and the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate
Bond Index are tighter by 16 and 33 basis points respectively.
The St Louis
index is a summary measure of
bond yields, credit
spreads... etc..
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Bond Anticipation Note
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Bond Buyer
Bond Index Bond Swap Book entry Book value BP option Branch office Breadth of the Market Breakeven Point Breakpoint Breakpoint sale Broker Broker / Dealer Broker's broker Bull market Bull spread Bunching Business cycle Buyer's option Buying power Buy
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spread Bunching Business cycle Buyer's option Buying power Buy stop
The
spread is even higher when it is compared with Pan Asian
bonds, as tracked by the S&P Pan Asia
Bond Index.
Advances in
bond indexing are starting to arrive with screens for credit quality relative to yield; rate and currency hedging; volatility management; and more controlled exposure to interest rates and credit
spreads.
The financials sector makes up close to 40 per cent of the FTSE TMX Canada All Corporate
Bond Index, leaving it potentially vulnerable to wider bank
spreads.
Credit
spreads of
bonds in the S&P 500
Bond Index have jumped.
I am wary about the duration of the Bloomberg Barclays US Aggregate
Bond Index, 10 which has lengthened to 7.5 years while
spreads have tightened to nearly 1 percent.
The option - adjusted
spread of the S&P China Industrials
Bond Index was the highest; it widened 50 bps to 155 bps over the three - month period ending May, 2016 (see Exhibit 2).
Since 1997, a two - factor model incorporating the Chicago Fed National Activity
Index (CFNAI) and high yield
spreads (the difference between the yield of a high yield
bond and that of the 10 - year U.S. Treasury) explained nearly 60 % of the variation in the VIX.
Their main performance metric is 7 - factor hedge fund alpha, which corrects for seven risks proxied by: (1) S&P 500
Index excess return; (2) difference between Russell 2000
Index and S&P 500
Index returns; (3) 10 - year U.S. Treasury note (T - note) yield, adjusted for duration, minus 3 - month U.S. Treasury bill yield; (4) change in
spread between Moody's BAA
bond and T - note, adjusted for duration; and, (5 - 7) excess returns on straddle options portfolios for currencies, commodities and
bonds constructed to replicate trend - following strategies in these asset classes.
They consider four potential predictors: (1) the default
spread (between Moody's BAA and AAA rated
bonds); (2) the broad stock market dividend yield; (3) the implied volatility of the S&P 500
Index (VIX); and, (4) the monthly net aggregate flow into the hedge fund industry.
And the
bond market's performance, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclay's U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, was positive for the quarter with a flatter yield curve and compressed spre
bond market's performance, as measured by the Bloomberg Barclay's U.S. Aggregate
Bond Index, was positive for the quarter with a flatter yield curve and compressed spre
Bond Index, was positive for the quarter with a flatter yield curve and compressed
spreads.
YTW
spread is between the YTW of the S&P India Government
Bond Index and S&P India Corporate
Bond Index.
Floating rate or inflation -
indexed bonds — Bonds tied to some reference rate, such as a specific LIBOR rate plus a spread, or tied to a measure of domestic infla
bonds —
Bonds tied to some reference rate, such as a specific LIBOR rate plus a spread, or tied to a measure of domestic infla
Bonds tied to some reference rate, such as a specific LIBOR rate plus a
spread, or tied to a measure of domestic inflation.
SmartFX also provide a trading account that is specifically designed for those who want to
spread bet on forex, stocks, commodities,
indices and treasury
bonds.
By selecting
bonds with low MCR, the low volatility
index keeps more credit exposure (long
spread duration) for high - quality
bonds (low OAS) and less credit exposure (short
spread duration) for low - quality
bonds (high OAS).
Since then, the S&P China Provincial
Bond Index has been trading at an average
spread of 25bps wider than the S&P China Sovereign
Bond Index.
In the construction of the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate
Bond Index, an individual bond's credit risk in a portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product of its spread duration and the difference between the bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equation
Bond Index, an individual
bond's credit risk in a portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product of its spread duration and the difference between the bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equation
bond's credit risk in a portfolio context is measured by its marginal contribution to risk (MCR), calculated as the product of its
spread duration and the difference between the
bond's option adjusted spread (OAS) and the spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equation
bond's option adjusted
spread (OAS) and the
spread - duration - adjusted portfolio average OAS (see Equation 1).
Spreads of the S&P Eurozone Investment Grade Corporate
Bond Index by rating category show that since mid-February 2016, the Option Adjusted
Spreads (OAS) are significantly tighter for the AA, A, and BBB categories.
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.
Yields are compressed across investment sectors, with the yield on the Dow Jones Corporate
Bond Index setting a record low last week, and a
spread over Treasury yields that I doubt will even compensate for a very, very low level of corporate defaults — much less what one might anticipate should the U.S. join the recession that is already evident among much of the developed world (which I expect it will).
You'd be better off throwing that money into an
index bond fund (or
spread across a couple).
As of Feb. 5, 2018, investment - grade
spreads had tightened 6 bps and were more than 110 bps tighter compared with February 2016, as measured by the S&P 500 Investment Grade Corporate
Bond Index.
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In examining the subparts of the S&P 500 ®
Bond Index, we can take a deeper look at how credit
spreads have changed for AA - and BB - rated corporate
bonds issued by constituents of the S&P 500.
Spread measures the relative difference between the municipal
bond index future price and the U.S. Treasury
bond futures price.
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.
To eliminate this problem, a
bond index can be structured to include only more liquid or most liquid
bond issues with tight
spreads that are frequently traded.
Parallel measures to ESM und EFSF such as the ex-ante unlimited purchase of sovereign
bonds, the neutralization of interest
spreads, the higher risk of suffering a haircut on debt, the possibility to hold sovereign
bonds until they are due, and the influence on market
indices and stock prices, as well as the intended persuasion of participants to purchase government
bonds on the primary market, lead the BVerfG to redeem OMTs as such bypasses.
The J.P. Morgan Emerging Markets
Bond Index Plus (EMBI +) tracks total returns for traded government
bonds in 17 emerging markets, reporting the
spread between the emerging markets and U.S. Treasuries [Figure 2].