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Are Junk Bonds Signaling Pause in Equity Rally?

Asset Allocation, Bonds, Fox Feed, Investor Behavior & Psychology, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, U.S. Stock Market, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

What does the bond market know that the stock market doesn’t? Even the U.S. stocks (NYSEARCA:IWV) have been scoring one record high after another, the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (NYSEARCA:JNK) has gone in the opposite direction. The performance divergence between high yield bonds (also known as “junk bonds) (NYSEARCA:HYG) and the S&P 500 …

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Will Dividend Yields Test ’99 Lows?

1 Comment / Asset Allocation, Bonds, Dividend Income, Federal Reserve, Financial Planning, Fox Feed, Inflation and Deflation, Interest Rates, NASDAQ Feed, Partner Feeds, Portfolio Management, Sentiment Analysis, U.S. Stock Market, U.S. Treasuries, Valuation, Yahoo Feed / By Ronald Delegge

The past six years have been brutal for dividend and income investors. Zero percent interest rates have depressed bond yields (NYSEARCA:BOND) and with major stock indexes (^DJI) now trading at all-time highs, dividend yields relative to prices have fallen too. Last year, the number of S&P 500 (NYSEARCA:SPY) stocks paying a dividend touched a 17-year …

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