The recent risk-off move in markets is affecting more than just stocks. Prices have also dropped sharply on speculative-grade ...

The spreads between the yields on corporate bonds and U.S. Treasuries hit their widest since September this week, pointing to ...

or “junk” bonds. Nowadays they’re not asking for much, and that isn’t a good sign. Mark Hulbert is a columnist for MarketWatch. His Hulbert Ratings service tracks investment newsletters ...

Bonds issued by retailers with “junk” credit ratings have been hit by selling as consumer confidence falls, but the selloff ...

Why It Matters: A junk or a high-yield corporate bond is a debt instrument that has a below-investment-grade credit rating, whereas a credit spread is the difference between the yield on the junk ...

(Bloomberg) -- Investors are snapping up bonds sold by colleges with near-junk credit ratings in a push for higher-yielding assets — even as concerns linger about the challenges facing small ...

Senegal’s dollar bonds fell on Monday after S&P Global Ratings downgraded the country’s sovereign credit ratings further into ...

Moody’s cut its rating of Nissan’s senior unsecured bonds to Ba1 from an investment grade of Baa3. The manufacturer already has a junk rating of BB+ from S&P Global Ratings.

Standard & Poor’s Global became the latest bond rating agency to lower the city’s rating to just above junk status, saying the administration appears unwilling to even consider cutting spending.