How to Use junk bond in a Sentence

junk bond

noun

• Moody’s thinks the default rate on junk bonds will fall from 3.2% to 2% by the start of next year.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• Second, holders of its $669m in junk bonds might take a hit.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019
• No celebrities break the fourth wall in a bubble bath to explain junk bonds.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
• Yields in the junk bond market have begun to creep higher.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 25 Jan. 2022
• And while some think the junk bond market has never looked this good, others think the worst is yet to come.
  — Sam Unsted, Bloomberg.com, 8 May 2020
• Yields on investment grade debt hit 9%, and junk bonds fetched 13.4%.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 Mar. 2020
• The junk bond market was wide open, even to the riskiest oil companies.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 2 Apr. 2020
• The price of Tesla’s junk bonds is well below the level at which they were issued last year.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Signs of slowing growth haven’t done much to damp investors’ appetite for junk bonds.
  — Matt Grossman, wsj.com, 28 Apr. 2023
• Over the past decade that junk bond fund had the best total return (coupons minus price erosion), at 4.2% a year.
  — William Baldwin, Forbes, 13 Mar. 2022
• More than half of those maturities, 62%, are in junk bonds.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2020
• Tesla has been propping up its cash flow needs in part by selling junk bonds.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 29 July 2019
• These junk bonds tend to pay much higher yields than government bonds, but they are called junk for a reason.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 25 June 2019
• For high-yield or junk bonds, those rated below investment grade, the story is more or less the same (see chart 3).
  — The Economist, 7 Oct. 2017
• Today, technology makes up just 5.6% of the junk bond market, from 4.4% a decade ago.
  — Christopher Whittall, WSJ, 15 Nov. 2018
• Sort of like Michael Milliken buying junk bonds, as a close-enough analogy.
  — Zain Jaffer, Rolling Stone, 5 Apr. 2024
• With the exception of last month, loans have been outperforming junk bonds this year.
  — Yakob Peterseil, Bloomberg.com, 3 May 2018
• Of the three major ratings agencies, Fitch is the only one that has yet to upgrade the state’s credit from one notch above junk bond status.
  — Dan Petrella, chicagotribune.com, 19 Apr. 2022
• In one sign investors haven’t given up riskier assets, many are holding on to junk bonds.
  — Julia-Ambra Verlaine, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2020
• But the new issue market for junk bonds is on fire this year because of investors’ relentless hunt for yield.
  — Marcus Ashworth | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 3 Dec. 2019
• The price on Tesla’s junk bonds also slid to about 85 cents on the dollar last week, according to MarketWatch.
  — Elizabeth Lopatto, The Verge, 14 Sep. 2018
• While it’s taken a long time for the market to realize this, 2024 has been the year of realizing the benefits of junk bonds.
  — Michael Foster, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• But as the deadline for an agreement to avert a U.S. debt default loomed, Treasury bills due in early June were priced as the near equivalent of junk bonds.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 2 June 2023
• That’s not much compensation, given that junk bonds tend to behave a lot like stock in bad markets.
  — Carla Fried, New York Times, 12 Jan. 2018
• Think again about that $130 billion public pension hole, which has dragged down the state’s credit rating to near junk bond status.
  — James Freeman, WSJ, 1 June 2018
• Don’t know the difference between a municipal bond and a junk bond?
  — Adam Shell, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2020
• Illinois has the worst credit rating in the U.S. at just one notch above junk bond status, and the state's five public pension systems are the worst funded in the nation.
  — Greg Bishop, Washington Examiner, 14 Jan. 2021
• Risk goes up The potential for rapid and nervous reaction now creates a risk in the higher-yield and junk bond markets.
  — Erik Sherman, Fortune, 15 July 2019
• At least three developers defaulted on their dollar debt this month as junk bond yields surged to a decade-high.
  — Time, 22 Oct. 2021
• The company now has nearly $47 billion in long-term debt, and if its debt rating is downgraded to junk bond status, its cost of borrowing money will soar.
  — Chris Isidore, CNN, 8 July 2024

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024