Financial Stress Is Rising - Time To Worry?
Chris Puplava - Seeking Alpha - 14 mins ago
One of the biggest themes strategists were calling for in 2015 was a pickup in volatility. The main reason given was the U.S. Fed turning from a tailwind to a headwind as it first removed quantitative easing (QE) and then seemed bent on...
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Bull market for no-disclosure junk bond deals
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 31, 10:25AM CDT
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Finding An Oasis In A Bond Liquidity Drought
AllianceBernstein - Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 30, 1:10PM CDT
By Gershon Distenfeld Let's not mince words: Liquidity is draining out of global corporate bond markets, and we doubt it's coming back. But that doesn't mean investors have to take their chips and go home. In fact, with the right approach, less...
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Metals And Mining: Where The Wild Yields Are
Matthew Waterman - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 30, 4:31AM CDT
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Fed Statistical Elephant Tracks?
The Nattering Naybob - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 27, 7:36AM CDT
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Rates And Bonds
AdvisorShares - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 26, 4:13PM CDT
By: Heather Rupp, CFA, Director of Research for Peritus Asset Management, the sub-advisory firm of the AdvisorShares Peritus High Yield ETF (NYSEARCA: HYLD ) So at long last we know whether the word "patient" stays or goes: it's gone and...
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Corporate bond sales hit record pace
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 26, 7:14AM CDT
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10-Year Treasury Yields Likely Headed Higher, Value in Preferred Stock
at The Street - Wed Mar 25, 4:11PM CDT
Heather Loomis, West director of fixed income at J.P. Morgan Private Bank, says investors should seek out preferred stock as bonds are likely headed lower.
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Junk bond outflows continue despite last week's rally
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 23, 2:34PM CDT
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How I Am Playing The Rebound In High Yield Bonds And Getting Paid 9.5%
Hawkinvest - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 19, 12:48PM CDT
HNW: 17.44 (+0.09), JNK: 39.22 (-0.01)
High-yield defaults edge higher in February
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 11:25AM CDT
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Junk Becomes Even Junkier
Pater Tenebrarum - Seeking Alpha - Tue Mar 17, 4:33AM CDT
A Vast Pool of Greater Fools One of the undeclared (or only occasionally admitted) goals of the enormous monetary pumping by central banks in recent years was to drive investors toward buying riskier assets. After all, if one gets virtually no...
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The High-Yield Seesaw
The Financialist - at Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 12, 5:25AM CDT
The past five years have been interesting times in high-yield debt markets. On one hand, the world's major central banks have been holding interest rates near zero for an unprecedented length of time, encouraging a hunt for yield that has turned the...
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Stock Market Correction Of 10% Or More? Why It's Very Likely
Markos Kaminis - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 11:30PM CDT
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In The Trenches With The Bond Squad
Learn Bonds - at Seeking Alpha - Wed Mar 11, 4:58AM CDT
By Thomas Byrne In last weekend's "In the Trenches" report, we published: "Another drag on long-term U.S. rates are low long-term foreign sovereign rates . The ECB will begin buying bonds on Monday, 3/9/15. Some investors might be...
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REITs Fell. Here's What To Do Now
Matthew Waterman - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 09, 2:46AM CDT
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2015: What Is Oil Really Telling Us?
ChartProphet - at Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 06, 11:39AM CST
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The High Yield Default Outlook
AdvisorShares - Seeking Alpha - Fri Mar 06, 9:07AM CST
By Heather Rupp, CFA, Director of Research for Peritus Asset Management, the sub-advisory firm of the AdvisorShares Peritus High Yield ETF (NYSEARCA: HYLD ) We see default risk as the most prominent risk for credit investors. As we look forward, a...
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Thanks For The Corporate Bond Bubble, Fed
David Stockman - Seeking Alpha - Thu Mar 05, 7:15AM CST
Once upon a time businesses borrowed long term money--if they borrowed at all--in order to fund plant, equipment and other long-lived productive assets. That kind of debt was self-liquidating in the sense that it usually generated a stream of income...
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SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond announces monthly distribution of $0.189
Seeking Alpha - at Seeking Alpha - Mon Mar 02, 12:42PM CST
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