High Yield Bond Prices Snap Back, Rally For Largest Gain In 3 Years

The average bid of high-yield flow-name bonds rocketed 272 bps in today’s reading, to 101.33% of par, yielding 6.74%, from 98.61, yielding 7.86%, on Oct. 16, according to LCD. All 15 of the constituents notched big gains, with none less than one full point and many in the two-to-four-point context.