Not exact matches
In recent months, the yield
on US
corporate bonds, especially investment - grade securities, is a little more than 100 basis points compared to the yield
on government debt,
dropping within striking distance of the lows seen post the 2008 financial crisis.
The average yield
on the iShares iBoxx InvesTop High Yield
Corporate Bond (AMEX: HYG) exchange - traded fund has
dropped around 10 % in that period.
Meanwhile, high yield
bonds represented by the S&P U.S. Issued High Yield
Corporate Bond Index lost -0.48 %
on the week and are now down -0.64 % for the month and have
dropped from earlier higher levels to a year - to - date return of 4.87 %.