That’s because historically, U.S. Treasury bonds have been considered the marketplace’s safest investments. For decades, the U.S. government has been big, stable and reliable. In a worst-case scenario ...

The current yield is the bond's coupon rate divided by its market price. Price and yield are inversely related and as the price of a bond goes up, its yield goes down. Investopedia / Daniel Fishel ...

Longer-term Treasury yields have climbed, keeping borrowing costs elevated, even as short-term yields have dropped.

The Morningstar Medalist Ratings for Western Asset Management strategies, which includes Western Asset Core Plus Bond, are unchanged after a bevy of organizational changes over the past three months.

The market for bonds depends on two key metrics. One is the price, which is what someone will pay to buy a bond that hasn’t yet matured. The other is the yield, which is the bond’s return on ...

The short-term or long-term capital gain, or loss, on a bond sale, is the difference between the selling price of the bond and the original purchase price of the bond. Municipal Bonds and Capital ...

This world-bond strategy’s managers argue that issuance-weighted global-bond indexes, which emphasize developed-markets countries with the heaviest debt burdens, are inherently flawed.