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The Barclays Capital U.S. Aggregate Bond Index is an investment-grade domestic bond index.
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It makes sense for the investment-grade bond index to do better once its worst credit has dropped out.
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That said, the Bank of American Merrill Lynch High-Grade Bond Master Index is up 3.75% through April 30 as a result of spread compression across the credit markets from the more lofty levels of the fourth quarter.
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For example, the difference between the average yield on a triple-B-rated municipal bond in the Bank of America Merrill Lynch municipal-bond index the low end of investment grade and a triple-A-rated one has dropped to just 2.64 percentage points, the smallest since 2010.
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Carlson has delivered a 13% compound annual return since then, a percentage point better than the emerging market index and better than double what you would have earned from the collection of high-grade U.S. paper in the Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Fund .
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The JPMorgan Domestic High Yield Index is an index composed of non-investment-grade corporate bonds.
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The average yield for nonfinancial company bonds in the iBoxx Euro corporate index, which measures the performance of investment-grade debt issued in euros, is around 2.35%, Markit said.
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Although the euro-denominated high-yield index does not undergo as much volatility as the emerging market index, its moves are far more drastically than the investment-grade or dollar high-yield indices.
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Emerging market and investment grade bonds have sold off in the last few days, and the dollar high-yield index has plateaued, but European high-yield has remained on course, edging higher.
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Consider that the Barclays Municipal Bond Index (the most popular industry benchmark) is comprised of predominantly longer-maturity, higher-grade debt.
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