Slowing U.S. Inflation Sparks Hopes for Corporate Bond Market

Slowing U.S. inflation has sparked hopes of a big turnaround for hard-hit parts of the $10.6 trillion U.S. corporate bond market. Bonds issued by America’s most valuable companies, from Apple Inc. AAPL to Amazon.com AMZN to Microsoft Corp. MSFT to Johnson & Johnson, JNJ have been trading at some of their lowest prices in nearly two decades, a casualty of the Federal Reserve’s interest rate hikes in the past 18 months.

Prices for low-coupon, longer duration bonds have been hit particularly hard since the Fed began quickly lifting its policy rate last year from a 0%-0.25% pandemic rang

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Fed rate hikes are fueling, not slowing, inflation, says this market-beating fund managerBrett Arends is an award-winning financial writer with many years experience writing about markets, economics and personal finance. He has received an individual award from the Society of American Business Editors and Writers for his financial writing, and was part of the Boston Herald team that won two others.
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