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Junk bond
· noun · finance
A sub-investment-grade bond paying fat yield for fat risk.
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Bond rated below BBB- by S&P or Baa3 by Moody's. Issuer's credit is shaky, so the coupon is juicy to compensate for the real chance you don't get paid back. Polite industry term is 'high yield', but everyone calls them junk.
“Loaded up on junk at 11% yields, betting the Fed cuts before defaults spike.”
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Junk bond In A Sentence
Loaded up on junk at 11% yields, betting the Fed cuts before defaults spike.
Origin & Usage
Popularised in the 1980s by Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert, who turned junk into a financing tool for the LBO boom.
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