Junk bonds can be purchased from a brokerage firm that buys and sells individual bonds. Investors can also buy a diversified portfolio of bonds through a mutual fund or ETF. In fact, several ...

From junk bonds to munis to mortgage securities, yields are elevated and prices depressed. Ten funds to consider.

Companies that issue junk bonds start out paying high interest rates. Now that investors are worried about the economy, ...

A popular trade right now is selling leveraged loans and buying better-rated junk bonds, said Benjamin Burton, the global head of leveraged finance syndicate at Barclays Plc. As tariffs from the ...

Some bond investors may focus on buying higher-risk junk bonds on the secondary market that may trade for a significant discount to the face value. They plan to hold them to maturity and collect ...

A Treasury bond pays a fixed rate of interest every six months, and the minimum purchase amount is $100. For example, suppose you pay $1,000 to buy ten bonds and the interest rate is 4%.

That would mark the first time since the period starting December 2008 that junk outperforms stocks over the following half-decade. Since corporate bond spreads collapsed to historic tights last ...

Global junk bonds extended a selloff Friday after China retaliated against US President Donald Trump’s latest tariffs and Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell signaled no hurry to lower interest rates.