If a company's financial health worsens over time, investors in the bond market will adjust to the increased risk and trade the bonds at lower prices and
therefore at higher yields.
Not exact matches
It is
therefore not yet clear (although clarity could develop in the coming weeks) that we are
at a tipping point from which we will see bond
yields march dramatically
higher.
Obviously, someone in this situation would prefer Canadian equities that paid a
high yield at the expense of lower price appreciation, and
therefore might reasonably choose a dividend - focused ETF in a taxable account.
Therefore, a truly undervalued blue - chip with a
higher yield than a fully valued, or even moderately overvalued comparable blue - chip, may actually be the lower risk choice
at that time.