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Here’s the effect junk bonds have on stocks

December 17, 2015

High-yield exchange-traded funds have become a hot story in the last few days, with many market participants wondering what the effect might mean on the broader market.

To get right to the point, here’s the correlation between the overall stock market and high-yield bonds. To be specific, this is a chart of the rolling three-month correlation between the S&P 500 and the Barclays U.S. Corporate High Yield Bond Index.

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