Bloomberg details the latest from the Fed: Chairman Ben S. Bernanke said the Federal Reserve is considering additional asset purchases to ...

Aleph Blog outlines why he believes "behemoth" companies (i.e. firms with a market value greater than $100 billion) trade at rel...

Long way down.... Soure: Barclays Capital

Year to date performance of corporate bonds (investment grade rated bonds AAA --> BBB / high yield bonds rated below BBB) is shown below....

Bloomberg details: Returns on U.S. investment-grade corporate bonds are pulling ahead of junk-rated debt as credit investors turn to borrow...

WSJ (hat tip Abnormal Returns ) details: Since peaking in mid-January, corporate-bond prices have had their biggest decline since a breakne...

In March I loaded up on both investment grade and high yield bonds (see Are Corporate Bonds a Screaming Buy? ) as a long term investment (th...

While I am still relatively bearish with regards to a further economic / market recovery, I am amazed at how fast a recovery we have had in ...

We've detailed similar thoughts here and here , but worth repeating. While the borrowing cost for corporations that have been able to m...

High yield bonds are outperforming investment grade corporate bonds, which are outperforming equities (year to date 2009). How rare is this?...

I've had two "screaming buys" since I've started EconomPic . The first was on October 9 th , with my post Muni Close-end ...

Update: I received some feedback questioning where on the corporate curve I was pulling my data, so I've provided the detail for the or...

Business Week details: At a time when the economy is experiencing its steepest drop-off since the depths of the 1982 recession, it's pe...

While the Barclays Capital Investment Grade Index has rallied significantly over the past few months (from slightly more than 9% to just ov...

According to Moody's , Aa Bond: Obligations rated Aa are judged to be of high quality and are subject to very low credit risk, but ...

JG provided an interesting insight in the comments section of my " Real Yields Matter " post. Credit risk premium, as defined by t...

Paul Krugman comments : The really striking thing about corporate borrowing rates isn ’t that they’re high by historical standards, althoug...

The cost of borrowing for investment grade corporations has skyrocketed in recent months to a whopping 6% above the Fed Funds rate. Will th...

Source: Jim Bianco of Bianco Research via Naked Cap italism .

There was a guess that the ' Secret Sauce ' was a Corporate Bond Index and one that the ' Secret Sauce ' was instead a Treas...