The corporate bond market is entering 2025 amid a backdrop of economic and policy uncertainty, shifting investor sentiment, ...

Generally, the lower a credit rating, the higher the interest ... while stock prices can be very volatile. Corporate bonds have higher default rates than Treasury and municipal bonds, but they ...

U.S. corporate high-yield spreads stand at more than 450 basis points, a sharp increase from the 287 basis points at the end ...

The tariff shock and recession fears that have sent world stocks into a tailspin over the last week are rolling into ...

Our research team assigns Bronze ratings to strategies ... Benchmarked against the Bloomberg US Credit Index, the strategy focuses on investment-grade corporate bonds. However, it may also hold ...

Bond ratings indicate a bond's credit quality, helping investors assess default risk. The three major bond ratings agencies are Moody's, Standard & Poor's, and Fitch Ratings. Investment-grade ...

For instance, the ICE BofA US Corporate Index Option-Adjusted Spread measures investment-grade bonds, which are rated a minimum of "BBB" by one or more of the three major credit-rating agencies.

Corporate bonds can be a valuable ... from highest to lowest credit ratings, as assigned by Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s. The ratings address the risk of default (failure to pay interest ...

Investment-grade corporate bonds look attractive on a number of fronts: They offer solid yields and have low default rates that ... with non-investment-grade credit ratings. They have performed ...

Bond yields, an approximation for annualized bond returns, are high — the Bloomberg U.S. Aggregate Bond index yields 4.6%; U.S. high-quality corporate debt, 5.1%. And interest rates are poised ...

Recently, strategists at Goldman Sachs raised their risk forecasts for debt defaults by US junk bond issuers and leveraged loan borrowers, citing widening credit spreads and the substantial impact of ...

Benchmarked against the Bloomberg US Credit Index, the strategy focuses on investment-grade corporate bonds ... structures and between cash bonds and credit default swaps. Extensive use of ...