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CORRECT (5/17): Junk Bond Funds Saw $688.5Mln Net Outflow In Latest Week -Lipper - Wall Street Journal

CORRECT (5/17): Junk Bond Funds Saw $688.5Mln Net Outflow In Latest Week -Lipper
Wall Street Journal
("Junk Bond Funds Saw $182 Mln Net Inflow In Latest Week -Lipper," at 5:28 pm EDT Thursday, was based on inaccurate figures that the provider, Thomson Reuters, later updated. The correct version follows:) By Katy Burne Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK ...
Are Junk Bond ETFs Sending Signals? (HYG, JNK, SJNK)MarketWatch
Junk-Bond ETF Shrinks By 6.5% On Record OutflowNASDAQ
Junk-Debt ETFs Set Markets 'Abuzz' After Record TradesBusinessWeek
Barron's (blog) -ETF Trends -ETF Database
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Junk Bond Funds Saw $182 Mln Net Inflow In Latest Week -Lipper - Wall Street Journal

Junk Bond Funds Saw $182 Mln Net Inflow In Latest Week -Lipper
Wall Street Journal
High yield bonds have been in huge demand because they are one of the remaining areas in the fixed-income markets where yields, and therefore returns, have held up well in recent months. However, high yield bonds, sometimes called "junk" bonds, ...
Another $182 Mln Inflow for Junk-Bond FundsBarron's (blog)

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Junk-Debt ETFs Set Markets 'Abuzz' After Unprecedented Trades - San Francisco Chronicle

Junk-Debt ETFs Set Markets 'Abuzz' After Unprecedented Trades
San Francisco Chronicle
s ETF of junk bonds to anonymously obtain as much as $780 million of the debt by swapping shares of the fund. "Markets are abuzz" over the State Street ETF trade that allowed an unidentified investor to avoid moving prices in the privately negotiated ...

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State Street's Junk ETF Sees Biggest Redemptions Since 07 - Bloomberg

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State Street's Junk ETF Sees Biggest Redemptions Since 07
Bloomberg
The largest trades on record in shares of two exchange-traded funds that invest in junk debt are attracting attention to the four-year-old market that allows anyone from banks to retirees fast and discreet access to speculative-grade bonds and loans.

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Moody's Starts Scoring Quality Of Junk-Bond Covenants - Wall Street Journal

Moody's Starts Scoring Quality Of Junk-Bond Covenants
Wall Street Journal
The move follows a surge in demand for junk bonds, which have offered juicier returns than other, paltry-yielding assets as interest rates remain near record lows. That frenzy has some investors wondering if the market for junk bonds is overheating, ...
Moody's to Rate Protection in High-Yield Bond CovenantsBloomberg

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