He pulled
the numbers on corporate bond ETFs and compared it to the inventory trading desks were holding — a rough measure of liquidity.
Not exact matches
That has been tested
on a
number of occasions, most recently 2002, when I ran a lot of
corporate bonds.
What you pay depends
on a
number of factors: Where you buy the
bond — say an online broker or a full service investment firm; what type it is — U.S., Canadian,
corporate or government; and how much of it you want — the price can go down the more you buy, so institutional investors usually get a better price.
On its third birthday, Emerging Markets
Corporate Value
Bonds went straight to the top as the
number one fund in the Morningstar category «Emerging Markets
Corporate Bonds» throughout Europe.
the relationship between interest rates and time, determined by plotting the yields of all or as many
bonds of similar credit quality (eg: Treasuries or AA - rated
Corporates), against their maturities; yield curves typically slope upward since longer maturities normally have higher yields, although it can be flat or even inverted; the Fixed Income Search Results Scattergraph shows several smoothed yield curves for different fixed - income product types and credit qualities; these are based
on bonds that Fidelity recognizes and are not equal to the entire universe of
bonds, which is significantly larger than the
number of
bonds offered by Fidelity
on any given day
When looking for information
on corporate bonds there are a
number of online resources I utilize.