Yields on junk bonds hit an all-time low, dropping to 6.837%, according to the Merrill Lynch High Yield Master II Index, breaking through the previous low of 6.863% in December 2004.
As the Federal Reserve continues to hold short-term interest rates near zero, investors have been pouring cash into risky assets in search of higher returns. Through the first six weeks of 2011, they increased their stakes in mutual funds focused on junk bonds by a net $4.6 billion and by $5.4 billion for funds focused on leveraged loans, a related risky asset class, according to Lipper FMI, a unit of Thomson Reuters.
Propped up by 10 consecutive weeks of fund inflows, the average high-yield, or junk, bond now trades at 103.89 cents on the dollar, according to the Merrill index, with an average risk premium of 4.54 percentage points above comparable Treasury bonds, down from 6.22 in early December, according to the Merrill index. Risk premiums are the additional return investors demand to buy these bonds rather than Treasurys, which are considered the safest fixed-income investment.
Junk bonds have enjoyed a two-year bull run, returning 15.2% in 2010 and 57.5% in 2009, according to the Merrill index; they have already gained 3.1% so far this year. As recently as December 2008, the average junk bond traded for 55.4 cents per dollar of face value and yielded 22.1%.
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And you want to believe Meredith Whitney that 100's of muni's are going to default? With rates like that on junk bonds?

So is the entire junk market wrong--or is it just Meredith?
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Surprised you don't have any comments on the Wisconsin state union protests. Curious on your thoughts.
yeh I saw that--what a zoo at the Capitol
I don't like the teacher's union--but since I had some good years in a union job (AFSCME) in Wisconsin in my college years--memories that i still laugh at with today--I can't get too sanctimonious when I see teachers acting how I did
but the Democrats leaving the State to avoid a vote---Gag me
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