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The bond markets are in the midst of a feeding frenzy. U.S. high-yield bond sales reached an annual record of $329.8 billion for the year, with three months left to go. The high yield's market's record year follows the U.S. investment-grade bond market, which reached a new record ...
I have long described our current investing environment as a "Borrower's Paradise" and a "Fixed-Income Investor's Hell." The situation has not changed and continues along unabated. The reason for this is really just one thing, the Fed. The reason for their posture is also just really one thing...
By Kristina Hooper, Chief Global Market Strategist The ripple effects of COVID-19 are impacting a wide variety of markets, and investors have lots of questions. Among them: Will production facilities leave China for other markets? What fixed income opportunities have been created by ce...
By Shamaila Khan As the coronavirus crisis unfolded, prices tumbled and yields spiked to record highs across investment-grade emerging-market debt ((EMD)) - a sector widely considered to have healthy credit fundamentals and a low risk of defaults. Yield Gap Widens with US Corporates ...
Make no mistake in your thinking. Both the bond and the equity markets are being led by the Fed. We are in a time, because of the pandemic, when both Congress and the Fed are doing whatever they think is necessary to get the American economy back on track. The Congress is tossing money up into...
First off, a quick "hat-tip" or shout-out to Nicholas Colas and Jessica Rabe at DataTrek Research, who have been posting similar FRED (Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis) charts on the US corporate credit markets. After seeing DataTrek's credit spreads charts over the last few weeks, I went to F...
Even in good times, it's not unusual for companies clinging to the bottom rung of the investment-grade ladder to become fallen angels. Yet concerns surrounding fallen angels are especially pronounced today, and not just because of the coronavirus pandemic and concurrent oil crash. During th...
By Michael D. Hyman CIO, Global Investment Grade and Emerging Markets Invesco Fixed Income ; Matt Brill, Senior Portfolio Manager Senior Portfolio Manager ; Steven Thompson, Senior Client Portfolio Manager The central bank’s actions should support liquidity and ...
With the sound of the Munchkins ringing in my head, and the image of Judy Garland skipping along, I am reminded of all of this, when I look at what the Fed is now doing. They have expanded their borders past anything that we have seen before, in a further effort to combat our coronavirus pande...
By Susan Hutman and Robert Hopper The coronavirus pandemic continues to wreak havoc across economies and markets. A wave of rating downgrades, fallen angels and corporate bond defaults has begun - and it could grow into a tsunami before the pandemic recedes. But that doesn't mean invest...
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Sage Advisory Services Announces Fund Closure AUSTIN, Texas , Dec. 8, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Sage Advisory Services announced today that the Sage ESG Intermediate Credit ETF (NYSE: GUDB) will close. The decision to close the fund was made following a review of market ...