ISHARES EDGE HIGH YIELD DEFENSIVE BOND ETF News

We examine the effects of the crisis on the year-to-date liquidity of USD corporate bonds, as measured by the price liquidity ratio. The price liquidity ratio c

This is a weekly series focused on analyzing the previous week’s economic data releases. The objective is to concentrate on leading indicators of economic activ

The lack of issuance and supply over the last almost year or so, that's what makes the TIC data so fascinating. And relevant, if for other reasons, too. CLO iss

A note on Grantham's comments about emerging market securities and how they offer better value than ludicrously priced US corporate securities today. In this en

I'll be the first to admit that a great deal of uncertainty remains in the fixed income investment landscape. Since the tumultuous selling in March, the U.S. HY

The Fed’s backstop helped bring down credit spreads, both investment grade and high yield. Banks appear positioned to make it through the Corona Crash according

We have the crippling global pandemic that we're all struggling with, and second, a concurrent collapse in oil prices. The result of this has been a swift and b

The IMF said it expects the global economy to contract by 3% in 2020 and negative earnings pre-announcements have been issued by major companies, yet markets co

The bond markets are integral to our Capital Markets and way larger than the equity markets. Bonds in normal times were buy and hold entities so they didn't ell

When the stock market crash started, money initially continued to flow into investment grade corporate bonds. But that didn’t last. The recent interventions by

The immutable power of time - with an assist from the U.S. Federal Reserve (the Fed) - is what investors can expect to restore order to the corporate bond marke

We are initiating our Roadmap to Recovery: Start of the New Cycle dashboard. The dashboard highlights the indicators we will be watching to determine the effica

Junk bond yields really do look ripe for the picking here. But that’s probably not the best use of capital at the moment. Given the dividend yields on offer acr

We are in the midst of a medical crisis leading to a health crisis enlarging into an economic crisis and they are all happening simultaneously. Each crisis foun

HYDB is marketed as a defensive and value-oriented play on high-yield corporate bonds. However, the ETF has a higher yield, more exposure to cyclical sectors, l