junk bond in English

noun
1
a high-yield, high-risk security, typically issued by a company seeking to raise capital quickly in order to finance a takeover.
Yet the growth of hostile takeovers, junk bond finance, and corporate raiding tilted the balance of power over the course of the decade away from managers towards shareholders.

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1. 23 More recently, there have also been some flows into junk bond funds.

2. 26 Michael Milken will always be synonymous with the term junk bond king.

3. 18 Once a country is in the junk bond category , no reputation is left.

4. An exception is the junk bond, one that has been officially rated as very risky.

5. 25 Meanwhile, Boston Scientific's credIt'standing with ratings agencies this month fell into junk bond territory.

6. A clever financial coup over Executive Life's junk-bond portfolio produced big profits for its acquirer.

7. The result is that the only credit sector that isn’t Backstopped is the deep junk bond market

8. 17 The average yield on a junk bond is more than 20 % now, according to Merrill Lynch.

9. 24 GM debt , once considered the highest investment grade, has tumbled to low - rated , junk bond status.

10. Credit rating agency Fitch lowered its rating on Icelandic sovereign debt from BBB− to BB+ (junk-bond grade).

11. 16 Despite losses in the Treasury market, junk bond prices maintained a 1 / 4-point gain, traders said.

12. 22 Salomon Brothers, slow to learn about take-overs and largely absent from the junk bond market, missed the bonanza.

13. Trump Pardons Michael Milken, Commutes Sentence of Rod Blagojevich Onetime ‘junk bond king’ served nearly two years for securities-law violations; former …

14. The glum symptoms range from junk-bond distress to the destruction of wealth caused by falling property values and the thrifts debacle.

15. 5 In 1984 our two-man junk bond department spoke at a Salomon Brothers seminar for several hundred savings and loan managers.

16. Strebel shows that Breakpoints may be as enterprising as Drexel Burnham Lambert's promotion of the junk bond market--or as dramatic as its collapse.

17. 7 The collapse of the junk-bond market has put the kibosh on a management buy-out of Wickes, an engineering and home-furnishings company.

18. Angl holds 201 bonds and while it is a junk bond fund, fallen angels typically have less representation the speculative CCC rating group than do bonds born as junk.

19. Arbitrageur 's portfolio because of the dediversification they Law, share price accuracy, and economic performance: the new evidence In the 1980s, Arbitrageur Ivan Boesky and junk-bond investor Michael Milken went to jail.

20. Covered as well are the fiscal discipline a gold standard imposes on spendthrift governments, the sundry roles played by money in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, the latter-day ascendancy of creditors (including junk-bond king Michael Milken) over borrowers, and capital as the sine qua non of Belligerencies ranging from revolutions