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high-yield bond

NOUN
junk bond
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Yet so far this year, investors are selling out of the high-yield bond market, much as they have been exiting from loan funds.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

“These components are bigger in the leveraged-loan market than the high-yield market,” says Nelson Jantzen, JPMorgan’s head of U.S. high-yield bond and leveraged loan strategy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026

Morgan Stanley pegs U.S. private-credit lending alone at around $3 trillion, larger than both the public high-yield bond market and the syndicated loan market.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 3, 2026

Equity markets near record highs, narrow corporate bond spreads, and robust high-yield bond issuance counter the suggestion that monetary policy is restrictive, he said in a statement on Friday explaining his vote External link.

From Barron's • Oct. 31, 2025

A case in point is the high-yield bond mania at the end of the 1980s, or more recently with mortgage-backed securities just before the global financial crisis.

From Reuters • Aug. 15, 2023




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