Topic: Corporate Bonds

The end of a six-decade passion for equities could lead to a less flexible, more conservative model of corporate financing. The FT reports.

Fixed-income investors are once again looking sage-like, as the latest eruption in the EU crisis ravages equities.  Two of these funds are up more than 7 percent.

While few other banks, if any, pursue the complex strategies that led to JPMorgan’s losses, many traditional lenders regularly buy and sell securities, and make bets with derivatives, as part of their core operations, the NY Times reports.

China has opened a new fundraising channel for purely B-share companies, which have been more or less barred from refinancing since 2004.

A nearly insatiable appetite for the latest personal electronic devices should enable the information technology sector to maintain its positive momentum for the next year.

It's all about new tech. Though not easily categorized, the group  generally consists of stocks involved in cloud computing, smartphones and software designed to enhance productivity.

If you believe that valuations are stretched, that innovation will not be the productivity-generating cure-all or that consumer demand for high-priced tablets and smartphones will wane, bet against the entire sector by shorting these funds.

To foreign bondholders of Fosun International, concerns seem to be growing around the business prospects of the Chinese industrial conglomerate.

Property prices in China have fallen for five consecutive months, but in a strange twist the stocks and bonds of Chinese property companies have been rallying this year, as investors grow more confident the sector will see a soft-landing and the industry will avoid a major bankruptcy.

Stocks have a hit wall since the latest dour economic warning from Ben Bernanke earlier this week, and the Fed chairman may be one who has to get the market to the other side.

Exchange-traded notes, or ETN's are a relatively new type of investment, but growing in popularity. So what are they and how do the work? CNBC explains.

China may launch a highly anticipated high yield corporate bond market in the first half of the year, the top securities regulator said, opening a fresh source of credit for cash-starved smaller firms and smoothing the path for equity market reforms.

United States Gasoline Fund — the only ETF offering exposure to gasoline — is up almost 23 percent in the last three months.  The fund, which has $95 million under management, tracks the prices of futures contracts on unleaded gasoline on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

U.S. investors are looking to Europe for places to park their spare cash, but opportunities may depend on the European debt crisis continuing, according to market participants on both sides of the Atlantic.

ETFs broadly covering bonds in the major taxable and tax-exempt asset classes, plus exposure to convertible bonds that feature some of the upside of stocks, are an investor’s best option to deal with uncertainty.