For the one - week period ending on November 15, 2017, investors withdrew a net $ 4.43 billion from U.S. funds holding high - yield bonds (often called junk bonds)-- the third largest exodus from such funds on record.1 The high -
yield market stabilized over the next two days, but the mass sell - off rang alarm bells for some market analysts.
Not exact matches
As for insulating your portfolio from
market setbacks, bonds at today's lower
yields may not provide quite as much protection as they have historically, but they should still do a good job of
stabilizing your portfolio when stock prices head south.
Despite recent equity
market volatility, high
yield has
stabilized over the past week and
yields remain attractive, according to data accessible via Bloomberg.
Then Baa
yields minus Aaa
yields —
markets had
stabilized by 2010 by these measures.
HFP: The Horizons Active Floating Rate Preferred Share ETF seeks to generate income consistent with prevailing short - term preferred share
yields while
stabilizing the
market value of the ETF from the effects of interest rate fluctuations.
Gwen MacKenzie, vice president of Sperry Van Ness believes people will continue to favor retail REITs even if the stock
market stabilizes and T - bond
yields rise.