Investment-Grade Bonds and Junk Bonds Are Looking More and More Alike
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Investment-grade bonds are securities sold by companies with the safest balance sheets and given relatively good ratings from the credit rating agencies.
High-yield bonds are sold by more indebted companies with more fragile balance sheets and given non investment-grade, or junk, ratings from the credit rating agencies.