Demand for floating-rate notes that protect against interest-rate hikes has collapsed like never before.
Portfolio trading has helped bolster inflows to fixed income ETFs.
The exodus from high-yield debt shows few signs of easing.
A blunder means this bond won’t mature in five years but in 2043 instead.
Portfolio trading, powered by the ETF boom, was gaining converts as markets in many individual bonds all but froze.
The $2.6 trillion international bond market has come to a virtual standstill.
As the coronavirus outbreak has spread, so-called "catastrophe bonds" have seen a marked decline in value.
Pandemic bonds are triggered by patterns in deaths from infectious diseases.
Here’s the latest sign ETFs are beating down the door into the clubby world of European corporate debt.
The fund is capitalizing on a sudden turnaround for debt pegged as the next source of financial havoc.