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- Rehabilitating a Lopsided Portfolio
- When the Radoseviches began phasing into retirement in 2006, their portfolio was worth about $1.5 million. Not anymore. Don, like everyone else, was enthralled by the stock market’s seemingly unstoppable surge in value in the past 20 years. He recalls, with something like nostalgia, that “from 1990 to 2000, everything...
- Articles 2009-09-24
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- Back to Square One Again (LQD)
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Back to Square One Again Thanks to partisan bickering and politicians putting their jobs above their country, things are right back to where they were last week prior to the initial idea of the TARP plan. Below we highlight the...
- External links 2008-09-26
- Corporate Bonds: When Safe Asset Classes Become Risky
- Brett Steenbarger submits: click chart to enlarge We hear about "credit crisis" and "risk aversion", but I thought I would make those issues much more concrete for readers. This is not some volatile stock or sector, and it's not a bank. This is a chart of LQD, the iShares...
- External links 2008-09-29
- Investment Grade Corporate Bonds Holding Up Well
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Even though equity markets have pulled back since the June 12th top, investment grade corporate bonds have continued to perform well. Below is a year-to-date price chart of LQD, which is an ETF that tracks the investment grade corporate bond market. ...
- External links 2009-07-09
- Barclays Global Investors Announces Index Provider and Name Changes of the iShares GS $ InvesTop(TM) Corporate Bond Fund
- Barclays Global Investors announced today that the index provider of the iShares GS $ InvesTop™ Corporate Bond Fund (AMEX: LQD) is International Index Company IIC and the Fund is being renamed the iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund, as a result of Goldman, Sachs & Co. selling its...
- Research articles 2006-11-01
- Corporate / Treasury Credit Spreads: How the Markets Are Pricing Risk
- Todd Chalem submits: A few months ago I wrote about fear indicators and how, at the time, they were all flashing bright screaming red. I also watch spreads between Corporate bonds and Treasuries. This graph is the one month price action on the spread between the iShares Investment Grade...
- External links 2008-08-27
- Bond Markets: Volatile and Weak
- Brett Steenbarger submits: click charts to enlarge A recent article pointed out that bond ETFs are trading at significant discounts to their net asset values in many cases, making them like closed-end funds. While increased volatility in the stock market has gotten most the press, the volatility in fixed...
- External links 2008-10-14
- In the Credit Market, Quality Still Counts
- Brett Steenbarger submits: (Click charts to enlarge.) We're seeing a nice contrast in performance between investment grade corporate bonds ([[LQD]]; top chart) and high yield corporates ([[HYG]]; bottom chart). Since October, investment grade corporate bonds have attracted buying interest, moving to two month highs. High yield corporate bonds, however,...
- External links 2008-12-09
- Why the Muni Bond Market Is in Decline
- Brett Steenbarger submits: Something interesting has been going on since the latter part of November: investment grade corporate bonds ([[LQD]]; blue line) have dramatically outperformed municipal bonds ([[MUB]]; pink line). Actually, the outperformance is understated in the chart above, as illiquidity among munis has left arbitrage opportunities unexploited, leading...
- External links 2008-12-14
- Not Everything Was Down Yesterday
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: While the S&P 500 and Nasdaq were both notoriously weak yesterday given the usual positive bias during Christmas week, not everything was down. In the credit markets, corporate bonds had a strong day, and if these trends continue, it will bode well...
- External links 2008-12-23
- TIP: The Best Fixed Income Investment, For Now
- Hao Jin submits: Warren Buffett said that the US economic situation is not as bad at World War II or the Great Depression, but it's still pretty severe. Common sense is that the current credit crisis must be solved before the stock market can be turned around. However,...
- External links 2009-01-19
- ETF Spotlight: iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond
- Tom Lydon ETF Trends submits: ETF Spotlight on iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond LQD, part of a weekly series. Assets: $12 billion Holdings by Tom Lydon
- External links 2009-08-27
- Asset Class Review: Corporate Bonds
- Brett Steenbarger submits: Recent asset class reviews have focused on grains, industrial metals, Treasury debt, and crude oil, gold, and the U.S. dollar. In this look, we will examine U.S. corporate bonds: investment grade (LQD; top chart) and high yield (JNK; bottom chart). by Brett Steenbarger
- External links 2009-08-27
- Liquidity Services, Inc. Announces Date of Annual Meeting of Stockholders
- WASHINGTON -- Liquidity Services, Inc. (NASDAQ:LQDT) announced today that its Annual Meeting of Stockholders will take place at 3:00 p.m. Eastern Time on February 2, 2009 at the offices of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, 1050 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. The voting record date was December 22, 2008. ...
- Research articles 2009-01-14
- Prop artists flock to paint Malev's Q400
- Asking the public to come up with a livery design isn't always a good idea (those of you who hate the ghastly Jat Airways 'dots' will sympathise). But Hungarian flag-carrier Malev has released a shortlist after inviting entries for a special colour scheme on one of its Bombardier Q400 turboprops. ...
- News items 2009-10-06
- Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF Breaks Down
- Hickey and Walters Bespoke submit: Investment grade corporate bonds have generally moved alongside the stock market throughout the bull market. In recent days, however, investment grade corporates have moved lower even as stocks have risen. Below is a chart of the iShares iBoxx Investment Grade Corporate Bond Fund ETF LQD since...
- External links 2009-10-12
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