Not exact matches
Although the largesse is restricted to blue - chip eurozone companies such as food producer Danone or telecoms giant Telefónica, ECB - injected liquidity has spilled
into the rest of the market, paring average interest rates on
investment -
grade corporate debt by some 30 basis points to an even 1 %, Deloitte estimates.
In 2015 Creditex expanded
into serving the bond market, through the launch of ICE Credit Trade, a leading electronic platform for trading
investment grade and high yield
corporate bonds.
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.
The index has been broken down
into respective subindices (the S&P Canada Aggregate Bond Index and S&P Canada High Yield
Corporate Bond Index) that match the different money management styles between the high - yield and
investment -
grade categories.
Moving
into the below
investment grade category of BB + and below municipal bonds are still outpacing their
corporate counterparts.
We can invest in just about any part of the global bond market but most of it is in credit so we subdivide the market
into corporate credit and below
investment grade corporate credit, emerging market debt.
They can also reduce their exposure to bank failure by diversifying out of bank deposits
into stocks and
investment grade corporate bonds or a broad bond index through use of low fee exchange traded funds.
For the previous week, Lipper data reported positive flows
into investment -
grade corporate bonds (June 3, 2015), which appeared to be buying on the dip, as the index moved from a Read more -LSB-...]
We subdivide the fixed - income market
into Treasury bonds, mortgage - backed securities,
investment -
grade corporate bonds, below -
investment -
grade corporate bonds, bank loans, commercial mortgage - backed securities, developed - market bonds and emerging market bonds.
For the previous week, Lipper data reported positive flows
into investment -
grade corporate bonds (June 3, 2015), which appeared to be buying on the dip, as the index moved from a yield of 2.89 % on May 29, 2015, to the June 3, 2015, level of 3.10 %.
Suppose you own a
corporate bond rated BBB (lower -
investment -
grade quality) that is yielding 7.00 % and you find a triple - A-rated (higher -
investment -
grade quality)
corporate bond that is yielding 6.70 %.1 You could swap
into the superior - credit, triple - A-rated bond by sacrificing only 30 basis points (one basis point is 1 / 100th of one percent, or.01 %).
We have begun edging back
into junk bonds and low
investment grade corporates.»
A brief flight to quality increased demand for U.S. Treasuries (S&P U.S. Treasury Bond Index), municipals (S&P Municipal Bond Index), and
investment - grade corporates (S&P U.S. Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index), and U.S. equities briefly dipped back int
investment -
grade corporates (S&P U.S.
Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index), and U.S. equities briefly dipped back int
Investment Grade Corporate Bond Index), and U.S. equities briefly dipped back
into the red.
According to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the
corporate bonds are generally divided
into two categories:
investment grade bonds, which are safer but have lower interest rates, and high - yield bonds, which have higher interest rates but are issued by companies that have lower credit ratings.