Credit spreads are critical to understanding market sentiment and predicting potential stock market downturns. The “Junk to Treasury bond” spread provides signals of market stress or impending market ...

Credit spreads on investment-grade U.S. corporate bonds have been falling back to more than 20-year lows as recession fears fade. The ICE BofA US Corporate Index spread was last pegged at a spread of ...

Leveraged trading with spread betting and contracts for difference (CFDs) isn’t for everyone. It certainly won’t form the core of a strategy for most MoneyWeek readers. However, for some people, short ...

Typically, once you’ve had enough (fun or frustration) with a speculative enterprise like troubled semiconductor giant Intel (INTC), it’s usually best to part ways. However, the market still seems ...