Graph and download economic data for ICE BofA Single-B US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread (BAMLH0A2HYB) from 1996-12-31 to 2025-07-11 about B Bond Rating, option-adjusted spread, yield, interest rate, interest, rate, and USA.

United States - ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread was 2.97% in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread reached a record high of 21.82 in December of 2008 and a record low of 2.41 in June of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

United States - ICE BofA Single-B US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread was 3.11% in June of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - ICE BofA Single-B US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread reached a record high of 20.84 in November of 2008 and a record low of 2.36 in June of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - ICE BofA Single-B US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on June of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for ICE BofA Euro High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread (BAMLHE00EHYIOAS) from 1997-12-31 to 2025-07-10 about option-adjusted spread, Euro Area, Europe, yield, interest rate, interest, rate, and indexes.

United States - ICE BofA CCC & Lower US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread was 8.57% in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - ICE BofA CCC & Lower US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread reached a record high of 44.29 in December of 2008 and a record low of 4.14 in June of 2007. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - ICE BofA CCC & Lower US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

Graph and download economic data for ICE BofA CCC & Lower US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread (BAMLH0A3HYC) from 1996-12-31 to 2025-07-11 about CCC, option-adjusted spread, yield, interest rate, interest, rate, and USA.

The ICE BofA Option-Adjusted Spreads (OASs) are the calculated spreads between a computed OAS index of all bonds in a given rating category and a spot Treasury curve. An OAS index is constructed using each constituent bond's OAS, weighted by market capitalization. The ICE BofA High Yield Master II OAS uses an index of bonds that are below investment grade (those rated BB or below). This data represents the ICE BofA US High Yield Index value, which tracks the performance of US dollar denominated below investment grade rated corporate debt publicly issued in the US domestic market. To qualify for inclusion in the index, securities must have a below investment grade rating (based on an average of Moody's, S&P, and Fitch) and an investment grade rated country of risk (based on an average of Moody's, S&P, and Fitch foreign currency long term sovereign debt ratings). Each security must have greater than 1 year of remaining maturity, a fixed coupon schedule, and a minimum amount outstanding of $100 million. Original issue zero coupon bonds, "global" securities (debt issued simultaneously in the eurobond and US domestic bond markets), 144a securities and pay-in-kind securities, including toggle notes, qualify for inclusion in the Index. Callable perpetual securities qualify provided they are at least one year from the first call date. Fixed-to-floating rate securities also qualify provided they are callable within the fixed rate period and are at least one year from the last call prior to the date the bond transitions from a fixed to a floating rate security. DRD-eligible and defaulted securities are excluded from the Index.

ICE BofA Explains the Construction Methodology of this series as: Index constituents are capitalization-weighted based on their current amount outstanding. With the exception of U.S. mortgage pass-throughs and U.S. structured products (ABS, CMBS and CMOs), accrued interest is calculated assuming next-day settlement. Accrued interest for U.S. mortgage pass-through and U.S. structured products is calculated assuming same-day settlement. Cash flows from bond payments that are received during the month are retained in the index until the end of the month and then are removed as part of the rebalancing. Cash does not earn any reinvestment income while it is held in the Index. The Index is rebalanced on the last calendar day of the month, based on information available up to and including the third business day before the last business day of the month. Issues that meet the qualifying criteria are included in the Index for the following month. Issues that no longer meet the criteria during the course of the month remain in the Index until the next month-end rebalancing at which point they are removed from the Index.

When the last calendar day of the month takes place on the weekend, weekend observations will occur as a result of month ending accrued interest adjustments.

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United States - ICE BofA High Yield US Emerging Markets Liquid Corporate Plus Index Option-Adjusted Spread was 3.64% in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - ICE BofA High Yield US Emerging Markets Liquid Corporate Plus Index Option-Adjusted Spread reached a record high of 25.03 in October of 2008 and a record low of 2.32 in May of 2006. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - ICE BofA High Yield US Emerging Markets Liquid Corporate Plus Index Option-Adjusted Spread - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

United States - ICE BofA BB US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread was 1.77% in July of 2025, according to the United States Federal Reserve. Historically, United States - ICE BofA BB US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread reached a record high of 14.68 in December of 2008 and a record low of 1.36 in August of 1997. Trading Economics provides the current actual value, an historical data chart and related indicators for United States - ICE BofA BB US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread - last updated from the United States Federal Reserve on July of 2025.

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Graph and download economic data for Moody's Seasoned Baa Corporate Bond Yield Relative to Yield on 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity (BAA10Y) from 1986-01-02 to 2025-07-11 about Baa, spread, 10-year, maturity, bonds, Treasury, yield, corporate, interest rate, interest, rate, and USA.

As of April 16, 2025, the yield for a ten-year U.S. government bond was 4.34 percent, while the yield for a two-year bond was 3.86 percent. This represents an inverted yield curve, whereby bonds of longer maturities provide a lower yield, reflecting investors' expectations for a decline in long-term interest rates. Hence, making long-term debt holders open to more risk under the uncertainty around the condition of financial markets in the future. That markets are uncertain can be seen by considering both the short-term fluctuations, and the long-term downward trend, of the yields of U.S. government bonds from 2006 to 2021, before the treasury yield curve increased again significantly in the following years. What are government bonds? Government bonds, otherwise called ‘sovereign’ or ‘treasury’ bonds, are financial instruments used by governments to raise money for government spending. Investors give the government a certain amount of money (the ‘face value’), to be repaid at a specified time in the future (the ‘maturity date’). In addition, the government makes regular periodic interest payments (called ‘coupon payments’). Once initially issued, government bonds are tradable on financial markets, meaning their value can fluctuate over time (even though the underlying face value and coupon payments remain the same). Investors are attracted to government bonds as, provided the country in question has a stable economy and political system, they are a very safe investment. Accordingly, in periods of economic turmoil, investors may be willing to accept a negative overall return in order to have a safe haven for their money. For example, once the market value is compared to the total received from remaining interest payments and the face value, investors have been willing to accept a negative return on two-year German government bonds between 2014 and 2021. Conversely, if the underlying economy and political structures are weak, investors demand a higher return to compensate for the higher risk they take on. Consequently, the return on bonds in emerging markets like Brazil are consistently higher than that of the United States (and other developed economies). Inverted yield curves When investors are worried about the financial future, it can lead to what is called an ‘inverted yield curve’. An inverted yield curve is where investors pay more for short term bonds than long term, indicating they do not have confidence in long-term financial conditions. Historically, the yield curve has historically inverted before each of the last five U.S. recessions. The last U.S. yield curve inversion occurred at several brief points in 2019 – a trend which continued until the Federal Reserve cut interest rates several times over that year. However, the ultimate trigger for the next recession was the unpredicted, exogenous shock of the global coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, showing how such informal indicators may be grounded just as much in coincidence as causation.

Graph and download economic data for ICE BofA Single-B US High Yield Index Effective Yield (BAMLH0A2HYBEY) from 1996-12-31 to 2025-07-14 about B Bond Rating, yield, interest rate, interest, rate, and USA.

As of December 30, 2024, 14 economies reported a negative value for their ten year minus two year government bond yield spread: Ukraine with a negative spread of 1,370 percent; Turkey, with a negative spread of 1332 percent; Nigeria with -350 percent; and Russia with -273 percent. At this time, almost all long-term debt for major economies was generating positive yields, with only the most stable European countries seeing smaller values. Why is an inverted yield curve important? Often called an inverted yield curve or negative yield curve, a situation where short term debt has a higher yield than long term debt is considered a main indicator of an impending recession. Essentially, this situation reflects an underlying belief among a majority of investors that short term interest rates are about to fall, with the lowering of interest rates being the orthodox fiscal response to a recession. Therefore, investors purchase safe government debt at today's higher interest rate, driving down the yield on long term debt. In the United States, an inverted yield curve for an extended period preceded (almost) all recent recessions. The exception to this is the economic downturn caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic – however, the U.S. ten minus two year spread still came very close to negative territory in mid-2019. Bond yields and the coronavirus pandemic The onset of the coronavirus saw stock markets around the world crash in March 2020. This had an effect on bond markets, with the yield of both long term government debt and short term government debt falling dramatically at this time – reaching negative territory in many countries. With stock values collapsing, many investors placed their money in government debt – which guarantees both a regular interest payment and stable underlying value - in contrast to falling share prices. This led to many investors paying an amount for bonds on the market that was higher than the overall return for the duration of the bond (which is what is signified by a negative yield). However, the calculus is that the small loss taken on stable bonds is less that the losses likely to occur on the market. Moreover, if conditions continue to deteriorate, the bonds may be sold on at an even higher price, partly offsetting the losses from the negative yield.

Graph and download economic data for ICE BofA Single-A US Corporate Index Option-Adjusted Spread (BAMLC0A3CA) from 1996-12-31 to 2025-07-11 about A Bond Rating, option-adjusted spread, corporate, and USA.

Graph and download economic data for ICE BofA US High Yield Index Semi-Annual Yield to Worst (BAMLH0A0HYM2SYTW) from 1996-12-31 to 2025-06-19 about YTW, yield, interest rate, interest, rate, and USA.

The Emerging Markets Bond Index (EMBI), commonly known as "riesgo país" in Spanish speaking countries, is a weighted financial benchmark that measures the interest rates paid each day by a selected portfolio of government bonds from emerging countries. It is measured in base points, which reflect the difference between the return rates paid by emerging countries' government bonds and those offered by U.S. Treasury bills. This difference is defined as "spread". Which Latin American country has the highest risk bonds? As of September 19, 2024, Venezuela was the Latin American country with the greatest financial risk and highest expected returns of government bonds, with an EMBI spread of around 254 percent. This means that the annual interest rates paid by Venezuela's sovereign debt titles were estimated to be exponentially higher than those offered by the U.S. Treasury. On the other hand, Brazil's EMBI reached 207 index points at the end of August 2023. In 2023, Venezuela also had the highest average EMBI in Latin America, exceeding 40,000 base points. The impact of COVID-19 on emerging market bonds The economic crisis spawned by the coronavirus pandemic heavily affected the financial market's estimated risks of emerging governmental bonds. For instance, as of June 30, 2020, Argentina's EMBI spread had increased more than four percentage points in comparison to January 30, 2020. All the Latin American economies measured saw a significant increase of the EMBI spread in the first half of the year.

At the end of 2024, the yield for a 30-year U.S. Treasury bond was 4.78 percent, slightly higher than the yields for bonds with short-term maturities. Bonds of longer maturities generally have higher yields as a reward for the uncertainty about the condition of financial markets in the future.

As of December 30, 2024, the major economy with the highest yield on 10-year government bonds was Turkey, with a yield of ***** percent. This is due to the risks investors take when investing in Turkey, notably due to high inflation rates potentially eradicating any profits made when using a foreign currency to investing in securities denominated in Turkish lira. Of the major developed economies, United States had one the highest yield on 10-year government bonds at this time with **** percent, while Switzerland had the lowest at **** percent. How does inflation influence the yields of government bonds? Inflation reduces purchasing power over time. Due to this, investors seek higher returns to offset the anticipated decrease in purchasing power resulting from rapid price rises. In countries with high inflation, government bond yields often incorporate investor expectations and risk premiums, resulting in comparatively higher rates offered by these bonds. Why are government bond rates significant? Government bond rates are an important indicator of financial markets, serving as a benchmark for borrowing costs, interest rates, and investor sentiment. They affect the cost of government borrowing, influence the price of various financial instruments, and serve as a reflection of expectations regarding inflation and economic growth. For instance, in financial analysis and investing, people often use the 10-year U.S. government bond rates as a proxy for the longer-term risk-free rate.