London, December 10, 2002 — The growing number of fallen angels in Europe is contributing to high refinancing requirements for the next few years and is thus intensifying investors’ and banks’ focus ...

State Street® SPDR® Bloomberg High Yield Bond ETF offers exposure to a nicely diversified portfolio of U.S. dollar-denominated speculative bonds. JNK has outperformed LQD, AGG, BND, and IEF since its ...

Larger numbers of not-for-profit hospitals fell from investment-grade into speculative-grade financial ratings in the past year and the trend is expected to continue, according to a release from ...

Ohio-based ProMedica Health System slid deeper into speculative grade territory amid bruising balance sheet losses tied mostly to its senior care business. Fitch Ratings cut the system's rating two ...

Bond ratings indicate a bond's credit quality, helping investors assess repayment reliability. Investment-grade bonds are low risk with lower interest; speculative grades are higher risk but higher ...

S&P Global Ratings said a Boeing downgrade to junk would boost the U.S. speculative-grade bond composite by 7.15% in a single day. The composite is currently made up of about $742 billion of debt.

(Reuters) – Moody’s Investors Service on Monday cut its ratings on Clear Channel Communications to a deeply speculative grade and warned the company may be likely to breach terms in its bank loans ...

U.S. corporates’ speculative and investment grade debt maturing in five years has now risen to over $2 trillion. According to the Federal Reserve, as of the end of 2018, private non-financial ...

The global speculative-grade default rate ticked up in January but is still expected to decline this year, according to a new report from Moody’s Investors Service Inc. Specifically, the credit-rating ...

The DHY fund price is still down 14.02% from its October 2018 levels amid dampened investor sentiment. The extensively leveraged conditions of high-yield debt issuers makes them increasingly sensitive ...

A new STEM building on Keiser University's West Palm Beach campus is among the projects being funded with a bond sale this week. A fast-growing Florida university that began as a for-profit career ...

A sharp rally in speculative-grade corporate bonds has pushed the average yield on those bonds below that of comparably rated loans, an unusual market distortion reflecting an improved U.S. economic ...