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The article describes the condition of the corporate bond market in the U.S. in 2018. It indicates the consequences of investing in corporate bonds in the aging business cycle. Investors are warned about the surge in so-called leveraged loans. Also discussed is the impact of an interest rate increase and corporate leverage on the corporate bond market.

The article discusses investors' rising focus on corporate bonds from emerging markets. Topics discussed include the economic optimism in emerging markets, the rally in Bloomberg's emerging market corporate bond index, and warning to investors about the deterioration of the credit fundamentals of emerging market bonds as reflected on the default of several emerging market issuers in 2015.

The article offers the author's insights on the state of domestic bond market in China. Topics discussed include a wave of defaults in the increase of debt issuance, the decline in the average interest rate paid on outstanding debt in the country according to Hua Chuang Securities, and the spread between interest rates on government and corporate bonds.

The editorial looks at financial systems and financial regulation, as of 2014. It expresses opposition to a proposal to designate some investment funds as systemically important financial institutions (SIFIs), which would subject them to additional regulations in areas including capital reserves. Topics include risk factors in financial crises, the corporate bond market, and hedge fund regulation.

The article looks at corporate finance, focusing on corporate bonds. It reports on the large September 2013 bond issue by telecommunications company Verizon Communications, noting it was aimed at financing the company's acquisition of the remaining stake in its wireless business, and offers statistics on the overall volume of corporate bond issues in January-August 2013. Topics include yields on corporate versus government bonds and bond market liquidity.

The author offers opinions on the bond market in developing countries. It is stated that the higher prices for corporate bonds of companies in countries such as Brazil, India and Singapore is not necessarily a bubble, as these bonds represent an alternative to the extremely low rate of return on bonds and government securities in Europe and the U.S.

The article examines government securities prices. Yields on U.S. Treasury bonds are at historic lows of less than one percent as investors have sought a safe haven during the financial crisis. Government securities yields have begun to rise in early 2009, however, as the spread between those rates and the returns offered by stock dividends and corporate bonds grew to levels of over 3 percent.

The article examines the market for corporate bonds. The interest rate spreads between corporate bonds and government securities are at record highs, meaning corporate bonds offer high yields at relatively little risk, but investors remain extremely reluctant to buy them. This is a reaction to the financial crisis. In the years preceding the collapse of the housing bubble, bond issuers demanded and got very low interest rates from investors.