Bond Market Trends News

Fitch: Industrials Dominate U.S. Corporate Bond Market

The U.S. corporate bond market's rating drift turned more negative in the last quarter of 2011, following a similar but less severe trend in the third quarter, according to a new Fitch Ratings report.

MarketAxess Releases Year-End Review of 2011 U.S. Corporate Bond Market

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. , the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for U.S. and European high-grade corporate bonds, emerging markets bonds and other types of fixed-income securities, today released its first year-end review of trading activity in the U.S.

Bond market mirrors a topsy-turvy financial world

JUST TWO weeks ago, an internationally respected economist – Dutchman Willem Buiter – caused a furore when he urged the Government to pre-emptively seek a second bailout. He offered this advice because he was utterly convinced that the State would be unable to tap the bond market in 2012.

The Guide To China Bond ETFs

Investors now have three options in the China bond ETF space, which is the best choice? (DSUM, CHLC, RMB)

Shiller says bond market not a bubble

Robert Shiller currently serves as the Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics at Yale University. In his book, “Irrational Exuberance,” published at the height of the dot-com boom in 2000, he predicted the eventual dot-com crash in 2000. He co-created the Case-Shiller Index with Karl Case, which measures housing market trends and, in the second edition of “Irrational Exuberance” published in 2005 ...