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While it's been a harsh month for stocks, junk bonds are outpacing the S&P 500 this half, Bloomberg First Word reports. More news on: Netflix, Inc., Uber, iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, Financial stocks news, News on ETFs, Read more ...

During the third quarter, stronger than expected growth and falling unemployment coincided with positive market returns for both stock and bond investors. In this commentary, Brian Meaney, CFA reviews the third quarter of 2018 and examines the Fixed Income Investment Team’s outlook fo...

Over the last couple of weeks, as interest rates surged above 3%, we explored the question of whether something had " just broken" in the market. Did Something Just Break? 10-05-18 Yes, Something Just Broke 10-12-18 This is an important question given the current stance by t...

Editor's note: Originally published at tsi-blog.com on October 16, 2018. This post was prompted by a recent article authored by the always thought-provoking Pater Tenebrarum (a pseudonym) at acting-man.com. The article looks at the relationship between credit spreads and the stock ...

By Pater Tenebrarum A Well-Established Tradition Seemingly out of the blue, equities suffered a few bad hair days recently. As regular readers know, we have long argued that one should expect corrections in the form of mini-crashes to strike with very little advance warning, due to iss...

I want to share a point of view about what's moving the markets that pushes back on a point of view reflected in a post Thursday after the close by a Seeking Alpha editor. The point made was that: A drop in bond yields today offered some relief for stock traders, who have been cautious ...

High-yield investors took back $5.36B from Oct. 4 to Oct. 9, the most since February and the fourth largest ever, JPMorgan wrote, citing Lippert. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund, Fi...

Paying little heed to falling stock and bond markets, junk bond investors are putting more cash into retail funds. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond ETF, Credit Suisse High Yield Bond Fund, Financial stocks news, News on ET...

investors pulled more than $2B from the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond Exchange-Traded Fund ( HYG -0.3% ) last month, the most in a single month since May 2016, the Wall Street Journal  reports. More news on: iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF, SPDR Bloomber...

This week it's two very topical developments on the one chart. The Fed has delivered yet another rate hike and shows no signs of slowing down, and importantly - high yield credit spreads have moved to new post-crisis lows. The chart comes from a report on the Fed and markets , in which ...