When professional investors discuss the credit market, a term that often arises is duration, which is used to measure the sensitivity of a bond’s trading price to changes in interest rates ...

Sooner or later, every serious investor confronts two important questions: 1) what are bonds and 2) how do they fit in my portfolio? The following discussion should help answer these questions, but I ...

Bonds help add diversity to your portfolio and control risk. But they can be complicated. Learning about how to buy and sell a bond is just as important as why to buy or sell a bond. These two things ...

Learn how corporate bonds offer higher yields and why evaluating credit risk is essential. Understand what credit risk means for your investment decisions in corporate bonds.

Investors in corporate bonds need to consider liquidity, or how easily the bonds can be sold without affecting their market price. Liquidity varies based on factors like the bond’s credit rating, the ...

Corporate bond ETFs invest in debt securities issued by businesses. Corporate bonds vary in maturity, credit quality, risk, and currency. Always review an ETF's investment objective and risk level to ...

Key Differences Investors Should Know - Confused between debentures and corporate bonds? Here’s a simple guide to how they ...

We’ll have plenty of economic news to cover this week. A bunch of housing data is coming out in the next few days, along with retail sales, consumer spending and inflation data. But perhaps the ...

The iShares Broad USD High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (USHY) recently dethroned the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond ETF (HYG) as the largest high-yield corporate bond ETF in the market. It did ...

Fixed-income investing has garnered more attention lately as yields have risen dramatically over the last 12 months, reaching levels not seen since the Great Recession of 2007-2008. Current yields on ...