Markit and Barclays High Yield Bond

Barclays High Yield Bond: A widely watched barometer of the U.S. junk-bond market administered by Markit fell 0.7% intraday and a pair of exchange-traded funds, the iShares iBoxx $ High Yield Corporate Bond, or HYG, and the Barclays High Yield Bond, or JNK, ETFs, were down 0.61% and 0.66%, respectively. That compares with a 1.7% decline in the.., according to Wall Street Journal and Investors continued to sell low-rated corporate bonds Wednesday, drawing on the weakness in global share prices and sending prices of the debt tumbling to levels that enticed some bargain hunters. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.