Bonds

Yankee bonds: higher risk, and return

10 Feb 2012

If you've never heard of Yankee bonds, rest assured they have nothing to do with a certain storied baseball team or popular scented candles. In fact, Yankee bonds are simply bonds issued by foreign companies ...

Corporate Bonds Price Well, Secondary Market Weakens

9 Feb 2012

High-grade corporate bonds weakened in Thursday trading but appetite for new-issues remained upbeat as a handful of borrowers improved pricing terms in the primary market.

4 Ways Bonds Can Fit Into Your Portfolio

9 Feb 2012

Since the early 1980s,??interest rates have been on a secular decline.??Since the credit crisis, governments across the world have worked to flood global??financial??markets with??liquidity, which includes low interest rates, to try and stoke economic growth.??This has served to push most interest rates to all-time lows, be it those paid on government??securities, mortgage rates or the ...