Maybe private equity troubles will be a harbinger of the next
junk bond bear market.
Not exact matches
Fixed income, rising (or falling) yields,
junk bonds, Fed tightening, TIPS, spreads, mortgage - backed securities — there's no shortage of jargon for this supposedly «
boring» investment that most of us own in our portfolios.
So the high - interest
junk bond was
born, largely at the hands of Michael Milken's gang at Drexel Burnham.
Other examples are the broad US stock market, the stocks of companies involved in social media and / or e-commerce, the market for
junk bonds, and a group of junior mining stocks where just the hint of a possible discovery has led to spectacular price gains and market capitalisations that
bear no resemblance to current reality.
Fixed income, rising (or falling) yields,
junk bonds, Fed tightening, TIPS, spreads, mortgage - backed securities — there's no shortage of jargon for this supposedly «
boring» investment that most of us own in our portfolios.
Another easy prediction to make is that
junk bonds and non-bond income vehicles will be a large contributor to the shortfall in asset return in the next
bear market, because a decent number of people are buying them as if they are magic.
In 1977, however,
Bear Stearns underwrote the first new - issue
junk bond in decades.