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Plenty of investors these days are jettisoning anything that seems risky from their portfolios. But things that look like junk may not be. High-yield bonds, issued by companies with what are commonly ...

The narrowing yield differential between US Treasuries and Indian bonds may also prompt a rotation of global capital toward ...

Once known as junk bonds, the high-yield bond market has gotten a lot safer. This market is home to debt issued by borrowers with lower relative credit quality and a higher relative risk of default, ...

High yield bonds offer superior returns with manageable risk when selected using strict criteria on credit rating, maturity, and leverage metrics. My portfolio favors bonds with maturities under 5 ...

HYS delivers a 7.1% yield from short-term high-yield bonds while limiting interest rate risk through 0-5 year maturities. The fund outperformed investment-grade bonds by 33% over five years but ...

There's just not a lot of outstanding high-yield debt, so it's not as easy to "impute " what other high-yield sectors are doing, said Spline Data founder and CEO Matthew Smith. As the muni market ...

This continues to be a good time to buy REITs. On the year so far, the average return on Equity REITs stands at 7.92%, compared to 0.52% for the S&P 500 and (-1.27)% for the NASDAQ. Mortgage rates ...