In general, high -
yield bonds tend to produce attractive total returns when the economy is growing and interest rates are stable or declining.
In addition, high
yield bonds tend to have higher interest rate risk and liquidity risk, particularly in volatile market conditions, which makes it more difficult to sell the bonds.
In addition, high -
yield bonds tend to have higher interest rate risk and liquidity risk, particularly in volatile market conditions, which makes it more difficult to sell them.
Stocks and high
yield bonds tend to do well after the first day of the new year.
Spread curves of high
yield bonds tend to invert when the Treasury yield curve is steeply sloped.
High
yield bonds tend to move more closely with the stock market.
Both equities and high
yield bonds tend to zig and zag, together.
Because investors are being asked to assume this risk, high
yield bonds tend to come with higher coupon rates, which can generate additional investment income.
Not exact matches
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Bond yields move inversely with bond prices, and rising yields tend to signal expectations of higher growth and inflation ahead and, therefore, higher interest rat
Bond yields move inversely with
bond prices, and rising yields tend to signal expectations of higher growth and inflation ahead and, therefore, higher interest rat
bond prices, and rising
yields tend to signal expectations of higher growth and inflation ahead and, therefore, higher interest rates.)
Because the central bank's purchases represent increased demand, it
tends to push up government
bond prices, thus lowering
yields.
The Armageddon default would also likely temporarily decouple trends in U.S. and Canadian
bond yields, which historically
tend to move closely.
For instance, Morningstar found that passively managed target - date funds
tend to have fewer holdings in high -
yield bonds and Treasury inflation - protected securities than their actively managed counterparts.
«When the Fed was raising rates and
bond yields were moving up, traditionally defensives don't do well, and more cyclical stocks
tend to do better and financials do better,» he said.
Most investors shy away from
bonds because they
yield (or return) less than equities and
tend to be more complex in nature.
Even with low
yields and rising interest rates,
bonds still
tend to do their job by dampening volatility and minimizing losses for the overall portfolio.
This convergence of
yields has implications for the behaviour of investors: with
bond yields in different countries
tending to move together, investors have found it more difficult not only to diversify their portfolios but to find trading opportunities.
However, given that many
bond yields are well below 4 % — and retirees
tend to invest heavily in
bonds — the appropriateness of this rule has been called into question.
High - dividend stocks such as utilities and phone companies fell; those stocks are often compared to
bonds and they
tend to fall when
bond yields rise, as higher
bond yields make the stocks less appealing to investors seeking income.
When the cost of living has eaten away at government
bond yields, investors have
tended to seek more attractive stores of value, including gold.
Slow but steady economic improvements
tend to favor high -
yield bonds.
Short duration
bond strategies
tend to have lower
yields than long duration
bond strategies, but when interest rates rise, short duration strategies will experience a smaller price drop.
In Canada, fixed - rate mortgage rates
tend to follow the trajectory of long - term Canadian
bond yields, which, in turn, track U.S.
bonds.
Stocks with a history of consistently growing their dividends have historically
tended to perform well and exhibit less volatility in a rising rate environment, while high
yielding dividends, often considered «
bond - like proxies,» have
tended to be more vulnerable (due to their high debt levels) and have historically followed
bond performance when rates rise.
The risk taker, for example,
tends to make risky investments such as real estate investment trusts, options, currency trading, and high
yield bonds.
We prefer value stocks, those that look relatively cheap on metrics such as book value and
tend to perform well when
bond yields rise.
In the short run, rising equity values would
tend to drive
bond prices lower and
bond yields higher than they otherwise might have been.
He also discussed the large - scale asset purchases of the Fed's quantitative easing program, casting doubt on much of the literature of the day — which
tended to find positive, but limited effects of such purchases on reducing
bond yields.
Short - term
bonds tend to be less vulnerable to rising rates than longer - term
bonds, while typically providing a higher
yield than cash.
Fixed - rate mortgages
tend to move in sync with government
bond yields of a similar term, reflecting the change in borrowing costs.
Higher risk (higher
yield)
bonds tend to be closely correlated with equities which means that such
bonds do not really dampen volatility or smooth out returns over time when combined with equities in a portfolio.
Hosansky added that companies that issue investment - grade
bonds will
tend to benefit much more than those that issue high -
yield bonds.
They often include instruments such as high
yield, emerging market debt and other more esoteric instruments that
tend to be missing from traditional
bond funds.
As a result, its
yield will
tend to move toward prevailing money market rates, and may be lower than the
yields of the
bonds previously held by the Fund and lower than prevailing
yields in the
bond market.
Bonds tend to be more conservative but
yield less than stocks.
Historically, stocks do
tend to trade at higher valuations when
bond yields are lower.
Short duration
bond strategies
tend to have lower
yields than long duration
bond strategies, but when interest rates rise, short duration strategies will experience a smaller price drop.
The S&P 500 High
Yield Corporate
Bond Index tracks the junk
bonds of issuers of the S&P 500 and as the
yields indicate, on average, they
tend to be better quality than the
bonds in the broader index.
In the short run, rising equity values would
tend to drive
bond prices lower and
bond yields higher than they otherwise might have been.
The U.S. interest rate hike signals that the Fed is feeling optimistic about the economy and
tends to cause
bond yields on both sides of the border to move higher, said Rob McLister, founder of RateSpy.com.
Thus, preferreds
tend to be a reliable stream of income that
yields more than
bonds, but it can also be used as a diversifier since the correlation of returns between
bonds and preferreds is low.
For example, high -
yield bonds have historically
tended to fare well during periods of rising rates.
Call Risk Appears Limited for Preferreds Both preferreds and high
yield bonds share call risk, though preferreds
tend to have more callable issues.
Not surprisingly, both charts show that when inflation is climbing both
bond yields and earnings
yields tend to be pressured higher.
High -
yield bond funds
tend to invest in riskier
bonds.
That's because
bond yields and stock valuations
tend to track each more closely at higher levels of inflation.
Short - term
bonds tend to be less vulnerable to rising rates than longer - term
bonds, while typically providing a higher
yield than cash.
For a large part of the historical data,
bond yields and earnings
yields tended to move more closely together.
And the relative changes in
yield levels - for both
bonds and stocks -
tend to be commensurate with the change in the level of inflation during the same period.
If you held the
bond fund for a similar ten - year period (as the duration of a single
bond), the funds annual total returns
tend to approximate the starting
yield.
Vertical factor: spread of Baa
bond yields over Aaa
bond yields — Hypothesis: When spreads are high, stock valuations
tend to be low.