Investors poured money into commodity strategies, corporate bond strategies, and Asia focused funds.
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What's more, raising the money through a corporate bond sale gives Apple a tax benefit.
But it should create opportunities in the high grade corporate bond market in the meantime.
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This is far above the 3.32% yield for the Dow Jones Corporate Bond Index.
That's because selling a credit swap is equivalent to buying the corporate bond on margin.
Another option for traders is the PowerShares High Yield Corporate Bond Portfolio ETF (NYSE: PHB).
For a top-bracket taxpayer, that was equivalent to as much as 12% on a corporate bond.
International flows of capital are not about to vanish corporate bond markets had a bouncy January, for example.
In practice, plans use a rate based on high-quality long-term corporate bond yields, currently just above 6%.
Problems occur with corporate bond ETFs in a fast-moving market because the arbitrage mechanism starts breaking down.
The rise in TSF was driven by increases in bank loans, corporate bond issuance, and trust loans.
My coverage ranges from the municipal and corporate bond markets to options trading in the stock market.
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But a potential problem looms in Sallie's books, says Kathleen Shanley of corporate bond research firm Gimme Credit.
Conceptually this is no different from putting your cash into a corporate bond fund, even an equity one.
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Over the last year, the Lehman Brothers U.S. credit index, a widely followed barometer of corporate bond performance, is up 8.2%.
Municipal and corporate bond defaults are rising but this could spell opportunity for huge profits by bold investors.
In a liquid market, corporate bond ETF market prices are held close to their NAVs by an arbitrage mechanism.
Customers can access Interactive Brokers corporate bond offering through their Trader Workstation platform.
Morgan Stanley estimates slightly less corporate bond issuance than in 2012, but doesn't give a forecast for government debt.
As the 2006 law continues to phase in, the higher blended corporate bond rate is causing significant reductions in lump-sum pension values.
Money market rates near zero and corporate bond buyers starving for yield make financing easier and cheaper than ever before.
Italian and Spanish national debt sells to yield over 5 percent which is what a BB corporate bond yields here.
The announcement led to a 17-month low on Japanese corporate bond risk, and Japanese stocks rallied on the news.
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Muni defaults a term meaning that the bond stops paying its coupon interest occur much less than defaults in the corporate bond market.
Meanwhile, rates on five-year bonds closer to the maturity of a typical corporate bond have risen to 0.305% from 0.135% on April 3.
Equity and corporate bond markets could yet fall further, especially as the news on the economy seems to get worse every week.
The water company Severn Trent is raising money by offering an inflation-linked corporate bond to the public, rather than to professional investors.
Banks, for instance, sometimes short Treasurys to protect their corporate bond portfolios.
The average corporate bond, as tracked by Barclays Capital, yields just 2.7%.
And so corporate bond spreads are widening--meaning, corporate IOUs have to show more of a yield premium over Treasurys to attract buyers.
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