That's unusual, as is their policy where they don't
buy high yield bonds.
When is it safest to
buy high yield bonds — when spreads are tight, or when spreads are wide?
High yield (HY) spreads — the difference between the yield of a high yield bond and a Treasury note of similar duration — are down 2 percentage points from their February peak, as investors
buy high yield bonds.
So I don't see direct lending by the Fed, or
buying high yield bonds, or offering protection on baskets of bonds as wise moves.
Given the new issue's lower yield, investors will
buy the higher yielding bond, pushing up its price, lowering its yield.
Not exact matches
Among individual banking stocks, Bankia, Credit Agricole, ING and Banco Santander are «
buy» - rated names, according to Deutsche Bank, as they all have a
high positive correlation to U.S.
bond yields.
Bond investors like mutual funds and pension funds hope to
buy securities with comparatively
higher yields than other asset - backed debt that could also provide diversification benefits.
The
higher bond yields go, the more pension funds will
buy as they look to lock in long - term income streams to meet their liabilities.
The bid - to - cover was 2.70, while 11.57 percent of the
bonds were
bought at
high yield.
While it's better to invest than keep money under a mattress,
buying risk free securities, such as guaranteed income certificates or low -
yielding government
bonds, could actually be riskier than purchasing
higher returning products, says Ted Rechtshaffen, president and CEO of Toronto's TriDelta Financial Partners.
The
yield on the U.S. 10 year Treasury
bond recently hit 9 - month
highs and the 2s10s spread widened on news of the Bank of Japan trimming its long - dated
bond buying program and questions around China's ongoing purchase of U.S. Treasuries (USTs) with its foreign - exchange reserves.
Tax reform could impact the
high yield market and lead to a
buying opportunity for municipal
bonds.
Banks «earned their way out of debt» by lending to global speculators who used the yen loans to convert into foreign currency and
buy higher -
yielding assets abroad — capped by Icelandic government
bonds paying 15 %, and pocketing the arbitrage difference.
With the Fed no longer
buying bonds and investors expecting greater inflation, analysts say
higher yields could make
bonds more attractive than stocks.
One of my readers alerted me to the fact that someone
bought 15,000 January 2016, 80 - strike puts on the HYG
high yield bond ETF.
Liquidity risk
High yield bonds that may have been easy to
buy or sell when market conditions were calm can suddenly become very difficult to sell when volatility increases.
Yet the currency is likely to remain weak as zero - anchored Japanese 10 - year
bond yields encourage local investors to
buy higher -
yielding foreign
bonds.
When investors
buy stocks, they get a
higher yield than in banks or Treasury
bonds, and they essentially get the company for free!
In a country where the unemployment rate is at a 20 - year low and industrial output is approaching historical
highs, fueling inflation concerns, a 10 - year government
bond yield of 1.5 % is totally inappropriate and will naturally spur people to
buy real estate.
At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why
buy a 20 - year
bond when I get a
higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?
Note: HYG the $ 20bln
high yield ETF
yields 5.13 % in comparison, hence you might need to
buy an out of favor sector like bricks and mortar retail, otherwise non-rated is likely where you will find > 7 % in the US domestic
bond market.
Former Fed Governor Stein highlighted that Federal Reserve's monetary policy transmission mechanism works through the «recruitment channel,» in such way that investors are «enlisted» to achieve central bank objectives by taking
higher credit risks, or to rebalance portfolio by
buying longer - term
bonds (thus taking on
higher duration risk) to seek
higher yield when faced with diminished returns from safe assets.
He also noted that it is a very poor time to
buy corporate
bonds (
high yield bond index
yield 4.93 %) and Gundlach sees a negative return for the S&P in 2018 as the rates rout eventually gives the equity market the yips.
It also can be used to compare the whole market against
bond yields... In most cases the earnings
yield of equities are much
higher then in risk free treasury
bonds Earnings
yield is basically the amount of earnings you
buy for every dollars worth of...
They've
bought corporate and
high yield bonds, property, shares, and other assets.
For starters, the ECB's $ 489 billion in three - year loans at 1 % interest gives banks a free lunch arbitrage opportunity (the «carry trade») to
buy Greek and Spanish
bonds yielding a
higher rate.
For me, most of my
bonds were
bought when
yields were much
higher.
With the rest of the 20 %, I plan to
buy individual California muni
bonds that offer
higher yields and
yields to maturity to juice up the return.
As illustrated above,
bond ladders work best when the
yield on the
bonds to be
bought in the future years is
higher than the current
yield.
Would you
buy a junk
bond or a
high yield bond?
Understand how corporate
bonds often offer
higher yields, and discover how it is important to evaluate the risk, including credit risk, that is involved before you
buy.
A
yield buyer is willing to
buy more
bonds at
higher yields, all other things equal.
It was tough to
buy more at a
higher price, but it was still a great
yield on a misunderstood
bond.
Understand how corporate
bonds often offer
higher yields, and discover how it is important to evaluate the extra risk including credit risk involved before you
buy.
In a different environment, or for financially secure companies, is it ever a good idea to make a leveraged
buy of
higher yielding bonds, where the
bond sells at a discount and the coupon is greater than the margin interest rate?
For that reason, many looking at carry trading strategies will have to go out over the risk curve and borrow in a cheap major currency in order to
buy a
higher -
yielding emerging market (EM) currency in order to earn a
yield beyond that of
higher - duration US Treasury
bonds (considered safe
yield).
The proximate cause of this sell - off is a reappraisal of risk in the credit markets, starting first at subprime but now having spread to the riskier parts of corporate credit, namely
high -
yield bonds and loans to finance
buy - outs.
What's more, there are several index ETFs that allow Canadians to
buy US corporate
bonds with currency hedging, including the iShares U.S. IG Corporate
Bond (XIG), the iShares U.S.
High Yield Bond (XHY), and similar offerings from Claymore and BMO.
To a lesser extent, it has also gone into
high -
yield mutual funds that
buy bonds rated below investment grade, known as junk
bonds to those who are dubious of them.»
With today's
higher rates, if you are looking to sell a treasury
bond you purchased a couple years ago that
yielded 2 %, nobody wants it because they can
buy other
bonds that
yield 3 %.
This, though, was a function of the trend in interest rates; at the start of those periods, the funds were
buying bonds with
higher yields than
bonds offer today.
Uridashi
bonds became very popular in the 2000s and are often associated with the carry trade in which a loan is made in a low interest currency to
buy instruments in a
higher yield currency.
So we sold some
high -
yield bonds, and we
bought investment - grade corporate
bonds back in June.
If the new investor
buys the
bond for $ 900, while the coupon rate will still be 6 %, the
yield will be
higher — both because he only has to invest $ 900 to get $ 60 a year and because he'll get back $ 1,000 when the
bond matures.
Investors have to be careful about
buying individual
high -
yield bonds.
At the point when a new passive investor entered the market (or an existing passive investor increased their allocation), he or she
bought high yield energy
bonds in the same proportion as the active investors, and maintained their allocations similarly.
As for Bill Gross, the king of the
bond kings, he recommends
buying municipal
bonds funds that trade at a discount of at least 10 % to net asset value (NAV) and a 5 %
yield or
higher.
Given this, if you
buy bonds now (either directly or through a
bond fund), you are not only paying a
high price for the
bond, but you are also locking in a smaller
yield.
It is about
buying short term money (by means of selling short term
bonds etc.) and selling that fund for a
higher yield.
Investors have a choice between stocks and
bonds, and the Fed model assumes that if the
yield on
bonds is
higher than the
yield on stocks, investors will sell stocks and
buy bonds until the
yields converge, and vice versa.