Tag: high yield bonds

Before major market pullbacks, it is common to see internal market disconnections or divergences. And they often go on for much longer than investors...

Watching high income (or high yield) bond funds has always been a good indicator of risk for the overall market, especially for stocks. Today's chart...

In the last couple weeks, there's been some noise around widening High Yield spreads. It’s fair to say that seeing High Yield spreads shrink...

First off, a huge thank you to Geoff Bysshe for covering for me so I could vacation for 3 weeks! Before I left, I wrote...

Intermarket analysis is simple. We measure two assets against each other.  We want to see the riskier asset trending higher in bull markets.  When we look through...

A special thank you to Brett Freeze of Global Technical Analysis for his added research, analytical rigor and technical expertise.  There is an old story about a...

For most grown-ups, Halloween isn’t all that scary but stock market corrections are, and we are in one now. The TSX Composite, S&P 500, NASDAQ...

With the S&P 500 (NYSEARCA: SPY) trading toward the all-time highs from January, it's important to look at some of the key stock market...

At the half-way point of 2018, there are a multitude of interesting stories to cover in the fixed income markets. Let's dig in... Beginning with June’s...

Today we'll dig into the credit markets and highlight some emerging concerns (near-term). Since the September / October 2017 corporate bonds issuance surge, investment grade...