DHY News and Press, Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund From 03/29/20

“Convince me why I shouldn’t buy junk bonds.” It wasn’t a challenge. My colleague Kyle was looking at some of the juicy yields on offer in high-yield bonds and was legitimately wondering why he shouldn’t load up his IRA with them. I’m not saying ...

As we roll through 2020, it is quite evident that we are all having an out of time, and space, and experience, moment. It is a medical crisis leading to a health crisis enlarging into an economic crisis and they are all three happening simultaneously. Each crisis founded upon the shoulders of ...

The credit market will be pivotal during the current crisis. In 2008, we had a problem in the credit market (Subprime mortgages), which made financial institutions move into credit tightening mode. Soon, that start cascading into the real economy. The current environment inverts that relation...

Everyone Wanting To Buy Suggests The Bear Still Prowls "If you own 10% equities, as we do, and the market falls 100%, you will lose 10%. That said, you have 90 cents on the dollar to buy equities for free." - Michael Lebowitz Let me explain his comment. Last week, we wrote a...

Is now the time to buy? For the last year or so we have attempted to invest conservatively, focusing on U.S. Treasury and Agency securities, as well as very high credit quality securities in corporate bonds and asset-backed securities. We tried to stay on the sidelines of risk as much as ...

Guggenheim CIO Scott Minerd says investment-grade and high-yield paper - as measured by their spreads to Treasurys - have only been cheaper than right now less than 10% of the time. More news on: PIMCO Corporate&Income Opportunity Fund, iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, ...

"We penetrated deeper and deeper into the Heart of Darkness" - Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness At the beginning of 2020 I said that the New Year would be nothing like the last year. Things are playing out as predicted, with Coronavirus thrown in for good measure, and with devastating co...

It was only Thursday when we reported high-yield as having its worst day in many years, but it's even rougher today. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, Prospect Capital Corporation, Main Street Capital, Energy stocks news, News on the U.S. economy, Stocks on the m...

We are in the middle of a bear market for risk assets, and the key question is trying to figure out what turns this around. My argument is that it is going to be very difficult to read the entrails of market chart patterns, pandemic data, and policy responses to time the bottom. However, if on...

By Tajinder Dhillon Brent oil has entered into a bear market, as prices have fallen almost $30 a barrel since the beginning of the year. Initial worries over COVID-19 caused the largest weekly decline in Brent oil prices since January 2016, having declined 13.6% during the week of February...