junk bonds

High stocks and rising crypto are pushing investors to junk bonds.

Companies that issue junk bonds start out paying high interest rates. Now that investors are worried about the economy, they’ll be paying even more.

Right now, the junk bond market suggests the economy is fairly strong.

“Junk” bonds don’t mean the company got an F in a test.

In Ayad Akhtar's new play "Junk," he tackles the precarious financial world of the 1980s.

Marketplace's Paddy Hirsch explains why high-yield bonds are just as risky as used auto parts.

Junk. Not a nice word. And when it comes to bonds, not a particularly accurate word, either. Junk is something useless, right? Well, "junk" bonds are definitely not useless. In fact they're extremely useful. Sometimes. Marketplace Senior Producer Paddy Hirsch explains what a junk bond really is.