high-yield bonds

The spread between high-yield bonds and safe Treasury bonds, for instance, is now close to its peak in early September.

Patel said she prefers better-quality high-yield bonds because too many investors have crowded into the bottom part of the market.

Investors in things like high-yield bonds and small-cap stocks have had a great ride.

In such an environment, equity interests in the form of stocks, real estate or even high yield bonds become re-rated.

Asian high-yield bonds have started to underperform the wider market (see chart) as investors take a more conservative stance.

Even if profits had been terrible, owners of high-yield bonds would have suffered too because of a likely jump in corporate defaults.

Pre-selling flats, seeking an initial public offering, issuing high-yield bonds and selling convertible notes no longer became viable.

Between May and June there was a 72 per cent drop in the issuance of high-yield bonds (hypersensitive instruments).

The number of international high-yield bonds from Asian borrowers is small, with annual issuance of around $15bn.

Yields on government bonds went down, yields on corporate and high-yield bonds, which carry greater credit risk, went up.

The weakness has been much greater in speculative, or high-yield, bonds than in the investment-grade part of the market.

Treasurys and high-yield bonds also took losses in their worst months since March and May, respectively.

Investors in high-yield bonds, the riskiest form of corporate debt, enjoyed returns of 11. 5% in April.

Martin Fridson, of Fridson Investment Advisors, says that the default rate on high-yield bonds may climb to 10%.

Junk bonds are also known as high-yield bonds.

Even risky high-yield bonds have recovered all the ground they lost.

According to Dealogic, issuance of high-yield bonds globally for this year has already hit a new record.

High yield bonds weak as equities fall sharply.

The 12th floor is occupied by Ares, which has $37 billion of funds invested in private equity, high-yield bonds and other corporate debt.

Be flexible, so you can move into riskier assets, such as high-yield bonds and stocks, if the economy shows signs of turning more positive.

In America the issuance of leveraged loans is growing much faster than high-yield bonds, though the overall amounts are still smaller.

Asia Aluminum has offered to repurchase high-yield bonds for 27. 5 cents on the dollar.