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Investors continue hunting for yield, and with the Federal Reserve pausing on hiking interest rates to this point in 2016, some previously beloved high-yield asset classes that came under pressure amid last year's rate hike speculation are again being embraced. Floating Rate Notes, Senior Loans...

During the go-go days of the Federal Reserve's various incarnations of quantitative easing and prior to the current bear market for oil prices, master limited partnerships (MLPs) and the corresponding exchange-traded products were prized by income investors searching for yield in low-yield...

A two-day Federal Reserve meeting begins today to determine whether to raise interest rates for the first time since June 2006. Volume in the stock market tends to drop as investors take a wait-and-see approach to Thursday’s imminent announcement. Thanks to turmoil in Greece and China, as...

Rated one of the best online brokers of 2014, TD Ameritrade serves a lot of clients. TDA recently shared some interesting data about the most-held and top-traded stocks over the past year. Chief Strategist JJ Kinahan went over the data with Benzinga and explained what the statistics mean. The...

Investment grade Chinese bonds are a relatively new subset of the investment grade asset class. ETFs offer a way to gain easy access. Before anyone invests in the bonds, they should understand why some allocation could make sense: Low Duration Low duration makes for low interest rate risk...

Many investors continue to hunt for yield in already 'picked' areas of the market. This is pushing prices to uncomfortable highs in sectors such as Master Limited Partnerships, Domestic REITs, some dividend paying stocks, emerging market bonds, and investment grade bonds. Year to date total...