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High yield’s retrenchment

21 December 2015Credit, MarketsCitigroup, commodity risk, credit, credit derivatives, ETFs, High yield - US, lending, Markit iBoxx $ Liquid High Yield indexNick Dunbar

There have been plenty of words written about the high-yield corporate bond market in the last week, but sometimes a chart expresses things better than words.

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Fear and liquidity in the high-yield market

19 August 2014Credit, MarketsETFs, investing, trading, US high yieldNick Dunbar

Junk bond funds are seeing record outflows. This has been described as a 'six-sigma event', in other words, six standard deviations away from the mean weekly flow, something that if normally distributed should only be expected once in millions of years. By definition that's unusual, but in the context of broader investment in riskier corporate…

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