{"id":387086,"date":"2026-04-19T10:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387086\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T10:04:13","slug":"credit-investors-shift-to-riskier-bonds-as-middle-east-truce-boosts-optimism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/387086\/","title":{"rendered":"Credit Investors Shift to Riskier Bonds as Middle East Truce Boosts Optimism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Credit investors are loading up on riskier debt, betting that Iran and the US can extend their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2026-04-17\/iran-says-hormuz-to-open-during-lebanon-truce-in-boost-for-peace\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">truce<\/a>, and leaving behind havens they\u2019ve favored since the war broke out in late February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In the first half of April, investors bought a net $500 million of bonds in the lowest tier of investment grade, and sold $7.3 billion of the higher tiers, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/JPM:US\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co.<\/a> That helped BBB bonds perform comparatively better than higher-rated notes, pushing the gap between spreads for BBB and A corporates to the tightest since before the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Credit investors are loading up on riskier debt, betting that Iran and the US can extend their truce,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":387087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[363,910,138,5399,219,45699,16609,41201,220,5107,111,139,69,200549,27462,6149],"class_list":{"0":"post-387086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence","9":"tag-bonds","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-economy","13":"tag-fixed-income","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-junk-bonds","16":"tag-markets","17":"tag-middle-east","18":"tag-new-zealand","19":"tag-newzealand","20":"tag-nz","21":"tag-principal-asset-management-l","22":"tag-private-credit","23":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}