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Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.
Brock Yates

Meaning of "junk bond" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF JUNK BOND

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF JUNK BOND

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Junk bond is a noun.
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WHAT DOES JUNK BOND MEAN IN ENGLISH?

junk bond

High-yield debt

In finance, a high-yield bond is a bond that is rated below investment grade. These bonds have a higher risk of default or other adverse credit events, but typically pay higher yields than better quality bonds in order to make them attractive to investors. Sometimes the company can provide new bonds as a part of yield which can only be redeemed after its expiry or maturity.

Definition of junk bond in the English dictionary

The definition of junk bond in the dictionary is a security that offers a high yield but often involves a high risk of default.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE JUNK BOND

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WORDS THAT END LIKE JUNK BOND

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Synonyms and antonyms of junk bond in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «junk bond» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF JUNK BOND

Find out the translation of junk bond to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of junk bond from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «junk bond» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

垃圾债券
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bono basura
570 millions of speakers

English

junk bond
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जंक बांड
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

السندات غير المرغوب فيه
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

бросовых облигаций
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

junk bond
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

জাঙ্ক বন্ধন
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

junk bond
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bon sampah
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Junk-Bond-
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ジャンクボンド
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

정크 본드
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Junk bond
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

trái phiếu rác
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

குப்பை பிணைப்பு
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

जंक बॉण्ड
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Önemsiz bağ
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

junk bond
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

junk bond
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

викидних облігацій
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

nedorită legătură
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

junk bond
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

junk band
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

junk bond
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

junk bond
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of junk bond

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «JUNK BOND»

The term «junk bond» is regularly used and occupies the 76.096 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «JUNK BOND» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about junk bond

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2 QUOTES WITH «JUNK BOND»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word junk bond.
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Alex Berenson
For investors who do want to speculate in high-yield bonds, one alternative may be a junk bond mutual fund, which can offer investors the relative safety of diversification.
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Brock Yates
Had I been more responsible I might have made something of myself as a junk bond trader, long-haul trucker or perhaps a plumbing contractor.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «JUNK BOND»

Discover the use of junk bond in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to junk bond and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The First Junk Bond: A Story of Corporate Boom and Bust
Platt (finance, Northeastern U.) chronicles the growth, decline, and restructuring of oil and gas company Texas International Inc. in the 1980s and the criminal involvement of Drexel Lambert investment house banker, Michael Milken.
Harlan D. Platt, 2002
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How to Make Money with Junk Bonds
None have done it as well and as simply and clearly as Bob Levine has done in his new book.” —Joel Greenblatt, bestselling author of The Little Book That Beats the Market “A great book by a great investor. . . . [I] recommend this ...
Robert Levine, 2012
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Predator's Ball
Milken is purported to have offered to pay award-winning journalist Connie Bruck to stop work on this book, the fascinating story of how a singularly brilliant and intensely private investment banker essentially masterminded the creation of ...
Connie Bruck, 2013
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How I Trade for a Living
west Airlines, Owens Illinois, and Tricon, which owns Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Many of the larger Las Vegas casinos, national grocery chains, and cable companies are also junk bond issuers. Junk bonds are bonds  ...
Gary Smith, 1999
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Banking on Fraud: Drexel, Junk Bonds, and Buyouts
The book provides evidence that debunks the myth of rational economic organization in the 19805 and establishes broad implications for theories of organizational deviance.
Mary Zey, 1993
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Financial Management: Theory & Practice
There are two ways that a bond can become a junk bond. First, the bond might have been investment-grade debt when it was issued but its rating declined because the issuing corporation had fallen on hard times. Such bonds are called  ...
Eugene Brigham, Michael Ehrhardt, 2013
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Corporate Finance: A Focused Approach
Thus was born the junk bond, a high-risk, high-yield bond issued to finance a leveraged buyout, a merger, or a troubled company.19 For example, Public Service of New Hampshire financed construction of its troubled Seabrook nuclear plant ...
Michael Ehrhardt, Eugene Brigham, 2008
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New York Magazine
Despite the risk that some of the companies issuing junk bonds could fail to meet their debts or even go into bankruptcy, junk-bond sales are ballooning. The reason: the big yields they offer in a time of rapidly falling interest rates. Junk bonds ...
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New York Magazine
Forstmann's next ma- jor scrape with a junk-bond advocate, however, ended much less happily for him and led to a fateful shift in Wall Street's power structure. In 1985, Rev- Ion, the international cosmetics giant, came under attack from Ronald ...
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Encyclopedia of White-collar Crime
The only department that was doing well was Michael Milken's noninvestment- grade bond — junk bond — department. Most in the firm, though, did not like Michael Milken. He was not interested in the high-grade stocks of the Fortune 500 ...
Jurg Gerber, Eric L. Jensen, 2007

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «JUNK BOND»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term junk bond is used in the context of the following news items.
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Greek Roots Haunt Company Trying to Revive Junk Bond Sale
Junk-bond issuance, which all but shut as Greece teetered on an exit from the euro and China s stock market plunged, has started to revive this ... «IT Business Net, Jul 15»
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How to Prevent America's Next Crisis: The Growth in Unmanageable …
... of over $40 billion worth of student loans, potentially re-rating these securities from top-rated AAA status to lower rated junk bond status. «Huffington Post, Jul 15»
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Why US savers shouldn't get too excited about higher interest rates …
In 2001, a one month CD paid 5%; you're lucky to get that from a junk bond these days. There's been some flip commentary that low rates are ... «Quartz, Jul 15»
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Fidelity's Notkin Unfazed by Valuations That Alarm Icahn - Bloomberg
Notkin's usual strategy is to compare the yield on the junk bond index to the earnings yield on the S&P 500 to decide which asset class is the ... «Bloomberg, Jul 15»
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School start and end times changing at more than 70 CPS schools …
... restore Chicago's junk bond rating and engineer the massive tax increases and cost-cutting needed to steer the city away from the fiscal cliff. «Chicago Sun-Times, Jul 15»
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MarketsJunk bond funds count largest inflow since April
Since the year began, investors have put some $2.5bn into junk bond funds, the data shows. The figures follow a strong week in US equity ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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Junk Bond ETFs Attracting Record Inflows
Now that volatility is dissipating and risk is back on, investors are piling back onto junk bond exchange traded funds. According to Bloomberg ... «ETF Trends, Jul 15»
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High-Yield Bond Issuance Remains Robust in 2Q15
Junk bond yields jumped week-over-week. It was similar to the rise in investment-grade bond yields but a much sharper movement. Even after ... «Market Realist, Jul 15»
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S&P warns China and US pose credit risk - FT.com
Corporate debt investors face the prospect of rising debt defaults from China and the US junk bond market, according to Standard & Poor's, ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
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Irish Junk-Bond Kings Plot Share Sales to Cut $12.6 Billion Debt
With the Federal Reserve getting closer to raising interest rates for the first time since 2006, borrowing costs in the junk bond market have risen. «Bloomberg, Jul 15»

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