Sentences with phrase «corporate bond index»

I'd much rather be swinging it around with FX and derivatives than trying to beat the medium - term corporate bond index by a couple of basis points.

A first - of - its kind futures contract tied to the value of a broad - based corporate bond index?

Most corporate bond indexes weight holdings based on their total debt outstanding.

The S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index yield widened only 8 bps from 5.31 % to 5.39 % on Wednesday, as again the market anticipated a last minute deal, only to widen further on the 31st to 5.62 % and then again on Friday to 5.84 % for a total move of 53 bps.

The investment - grade issues in the S&P National AMT - Free Municipal Bond Index have a tax - equivalent yield of 3.36 %, which is superior to the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index yield of 3.13 %.

PowerShares 1 - 5 Year Laddered Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index ETF PowerShares Ultra DLUX Long Term Government Bond Index ETF PowerShares Fundamental High Yield Corporate Bond (CAD Hedged) Index ETF PowerShares Canadian Dividend Index ETF PowerShares Canadian Preferred Share Index ETF PowerShares QQQ (CAD Hedged) Index ETF

The market value of the S&P China Corporate Bond Index also gained 15 % in the past year.

The low rate environment and continued demand for yield generating asset classes has pushed the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index returns to 4.32 % year to date as yields have fallen by Read more -LSB-...]

The iShares 1 - 5 Year Laddered Corporate Bond Index Fund (CBO) holds a portfolio of bonds — mostly offered by banks and life insurance companies — structured in five maturity rungs.

Let's take a look at the performance relationships between the stocks and the bonds by using the S&P 500 Energy Total Return and the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index Total Return to see how the market views the equity risk premium, or in other words how strongly the market believes oil stocks will rise (equity performance) or fall (bond performance.)

Both the Bloomberg Barclays Municipal Bond Index and Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Corporate Bond Index contain investment grade bonds, but corporate bonds» income is subject to income taxes.

As for total return performance, the S&P Japan Corporate Bond Index gained 1.09 % YTD as of Sept. 29, 2016.

The S&P Pan Asia Corporate Bond Index outperformed the S&P Pan Read more -LSB-...]

During January 2015, the S&P India Government Bond Index returned 1.89 %, which was 0.47 % greater than the return of the S&P India Corporate Bond Index over the same period.

As expected, the S&P U.S. High Yield Low Volatility Corporate Bond Index sat between the high - yield and investment - grade bond sectors in the volatility spectrum.

A REIT owning top - tier office buildings in Hong Kong and Shanghai, for example, could yield 6.8 percent a year, while the benchmark Barclays International Corporate bond index yields approximately 2.5 percent.

The week's news affected the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index in a similar way, as the YTW rose 13 bps over the week and was 33 bps higher.

PowerShares LadderRite US 0 - 5 Year Corporate Bond Index ETF (USB / USB.

That's what to watch for now - things like the difference between commercial paper yields and Treasury bills, the difference between Moody's BAA and AAA yields, the difference between the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index yield and 10 - year Treasury yields, and so forth.

The S&P Indonesia Corporate Bond Index returned 4.14 % YTD and 10.89 % over the one - year period.

The yield of the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index moved lower by 8 bps during the last week of the month to Read more -LSB-...]

Looking at performance since Sept. 30, 2015, the S&P 500 Bond Mega 30 High Yield Index outperformed and rose 28 %, while the S&P 500 Bond Mega 30 Investment Grade Index gained 9.04 % and the S&P China Corporate Bond Index gained 6.35 %.

Premium bonds are notoriously tax - inefficient, which is the main reason we dropped the popular iShares 1 - 5 Year Laddered Corporate Bond Index ETF (CBO) from our lineup.

The S&P / LSTA Leveraged Loan 100 Index, which seeks to track the largest loan facilities, has been less volatile than the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index over the past five years and it has achieved comparable risk - adjusted returns.

Following the Treasuries» lead, the yield of the S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index widened by 24 bps for the week to 3.14 % (as of June 5, 2015).

In addition, as of November 30th, the average rating quality of the S&P International Bond Index outranks that of the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index with average weighted ratings of A / A - and A - / BBB +, respectively.

The S&P China Corporate Bond Index outperformed the S&P China Sovereign Bond Index and gained 4.26 % YTD, and its yield - to - maturity tightened by 110 bps to 4.26 % as of June 29, 2015 — a level last seen in late 2010.

The yield of the S&P U.S. High Yield Corporate Bond Index also widened for the week.

However, the bonds of the financial companies in the U.S. have stayed in positive territory with the S&P 500 Financials Corporate Bond Index returning just under 1 % through June while the equity market sector tracked in the S&P 500 Financials (TR) has seen extreme volatility to the down side of more than 6.5 %.

The Vanguard Canadian Short - Term Corporate Bond Index ETF (VSC) includes 200 investment - grade bonds issued by Canadian companies (mostly banks) with maturities under five years.

Looking at subsectors of the Bank of America Merrill Lynch US Corporate Bond Index in the almost 16 years ending September 30, 2016, we find that total returns do not follow a monotonic pattern of higher returns for worse - rated companies (B and below) versus better - rated high - yield credit (BBB and BB), whereas volatility grew by a factor of two to three times.

The underlying universe for our study is the S&P U.S Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index from Read more -LSB-...]

Below is a chart of the historical S&P GSCI Energy TR index levels versus the equity risk premium as measured by the S&P 500 Energy Total Return monthly minus the S&P 500 Energy Corporate Bond Index Total Return monthly.

While both Chinese government and corporate bonds traded tighter, the yield of the S&P China Corporate Bond Index tightened by 91bps to 5.56 %, as of June 30, 2014.

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 direction.

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).

Investment grade bonds as measured by the S&P U.S. Issued Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index turned it up a notch as the index's yield tightened by 9 basis points on the week to a 2.76 %.

In response to the most recent events, the Under Armour bond has been downgraded to BB + and will be moved out of the investment - grade index and into the S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index at the next month - end rebalancing (February 2017), as per the index rules.

Looking specifically at the corporate sector, the S&P China Corporate Bond Index delivered total return of 5.29 % YTD as of the same date, consistently outperforming the S&P 500 ® Bond Index over the last two years, see exhibit 1.

Benefited from the continuous hunt for yield, the S&P / ASX Corporate Bond Index delivered a robust total return of 3.95 % year - to - date (YTD), as of December 5, 2013.

Though the yield - to - maturity of the S&P Philippines Corporate Bond Index tightened 79 bps to 4.08 % YTD, the yields remained attractive for the modified duration, at 4.06 %.

The constituents in the S&P 500 Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index trade more frequently than the U.S. IG corporate bonds ex-S & P 500.

The yields of the S&P Malaysia Government Bond Index and S&P Malaysia Corporate Bond Index currently stand at 4.02 % and 4.78 %, respectively.

The RBC ETFs will employ a sampling methodology to replicate the DEX Target Date Maturity Corporate Bond Indexes provided by PC - Bond Analytics, a provider of Canadian fixed income indices.

The S&P Canada Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index contains 607 bonds and has a yield - to - worst of 2.2 %.

One way for market participants to express this is to incorporate exposure to the S&P 500 High Yield Corporate Bond Index which can enhance yields with quality in mind.