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Investing 4: Bonds & Becky With the Good Yield

Planet Money Summer School

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The Biggest Part of the Junk Bond Market

Companies are issuing junk bonds now. Clare says, companies have started borrowing unprecedented amounts of money and using it to buy up other companies. Low oil prices have pushed a lot of these companies into troubled territory. But especially companies like hornbeck offshore services is in that lowest tie ors.

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