Our research team assigns Neutral ratings ... a decade as a credit analyst covering US investment-grade corporates and three years managing an emerging-markets corporate bond portfolio.

USHY holds exposure to BB and B-rated bonds, which in 2025 experienced a default rate below the historical average. Explore ...

The first difference investors are likely to notice between corporate ... bonds are customarily seen as having a vanishingly small probability of default, they carry Moody’s highest credit ...

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 ...

They pay higher interest rates than investment-grade bonds because they carry a higher risk of default. A credit rating is a ...

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 ...

There is a lot of uncertainty about where markets are heading,” says Fateen Sharaby, index business manager with Bloomberg Indices.

The idea of additional stimulus checks has been discussed since the first ones were rolled out during the pandemic. If additional stimulus were to be approved, using the money to buy bonds, which ...

Our research team assigns Silver ratings to ... a decade as a credit analyst covering US investment-grade corporates and three years managing an emerging-markets corporate bond portfolio.