Monday, March 26, 2012

Junk bonds

  • NEW YORK — Americans have a thing for junk. Stock prices have doubled in the past three years, and everyday investors keep pulling money out of stocks.
  • (Huffington Post)
  • In the ongoing search for yield, investors have been piling into high-yield, junk bond exchange traded funds. However, investors need to clearly understand the risks of ETFs that hold lower-quality corporate bonds.
  • (Yahoo Finance)
  • Top-tier junk bonds produced safer returns than debt from the most creditworthy borrowers and the U.S. government over the past five years, a period that included the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.
  • (Financial Post)
  • Junk-debt investors looking to boost returns without buying lower-rated bonds should consider moving into loans ranked in the highest speculative-grade tier, according to Credit Suisse Group AG.
  • (Bloomberg)
  • Junk bonds are sort of like the platypus of fixed-income investing.
  • (Barron's Online)
  • So far this year, mutual funds and exchange-traded funds investing in high-yield, or junk, bonds have taken in more than $17 billion in new money. Roughly 15 cents of every dollar flowing into all stock and bond funds combined has gone into junk alone.
  • (Smart Money)
  • Short-term bonds are at the zero bound and the financial repression 1-3 Yr Treas SHY 0.20 1.9 7-10 Yr Treas IEF 1.73 7.5 20+ Yr Treas TLT 3.17 28.0 Inv. Grade Corp. LQD 3.49 7.4 Junk HYG 6.45 4.2 Municipal MUB 2.05 6.
  • (Lighten Up On Fixed Income - Seekingalpha.com)
  • A structural price ceiling that may keep junk bonds from gaining much more might also protect against downside losses. With the average junk bond trading at 101.
  • (Barron's Online)
  • This month, Taco Bell pulled back the curtain on its latest fast-food revolution. And if that curtain weren't metaphorical, it would be coated in cheese dust. The Doritos Locos Taco is basically a regular Taco Bell taco wrapped inside a miracle.
  • (Lincoln Journal Star)

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