Earlier, the junk-bond mania of the late 1980s ended badly.    From Wordnik.com.  [High Finance Laid Low] Reference

Existing junk-bond yields are at an all-time high of 19.2 percent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Toast Of The Town, Toasted] Reference

Last month Moody's cut Penney's credit rating to junk-bond status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cheap Thrills For Shoppers] Reference

As the economy weakens, junk-bond defaults will increase, Seides says.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Sequel to the Subprime Mess?] Reference

Since late November, however, even junk-bond yields have been falling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bulls and Bears Both Point to Lending] Reference

That suggests to bond bulls that the junk-bond rally could run further.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bond surge driven by lack of supply] Reference

They are managed by a former Fidelity star junk-bond manager David Glancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Putnam Sheds 'Life of Mediocrity'] Reference

In 1991, O'Neal began running the junk-bond group, leading Merrill to dominance.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Race To The Top] Reference

Alabama's Birmingham-Southern College just went even lower into junk-bond territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Colleges See Bonds Downgraded] Reference

As business improves, the risk of junk-bond defaults declines, and their price goes up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are Stocks Too High?] Reference

As befits a junk-bond party, those attending included some heavily indebted luminaries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Overheard: Junk-Bond Party] Reference

He attended public high school with the likes of erstwhile junk-bond king Michael Milken.    From Wordnik.com.  [King Of The Deal] Reference

"How is Citicorp going to lend to customers if it itself is borrowing at junk-bond rates?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nightmare Scenarios] Reference

The speculative-grade, or junk-bond, market also was busy, led by energy companies such as.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investment-Grade Bond Market Booms] Reference

After all, why should serial killers and junk-bond wizards get all the publishing contracts?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Have Wit, Will Travel] Reference

Poor's cut its ratings on both Portugal and Greece, pushing Greece into junk-bond territory.    From Wordnik.com.  [Greek Stocks Tumble 6%] Reference

A portion of the junk-bond commitment was previously syndicated to debt investors for a fee.    From Wordnik.com.  [Comeback for the 'Year Bill'?] Reference

In April Grier attended a gala honoring former junk-bond king and convicted felon Michael Milken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Turning Up In All The Strange Places] Reference

First Executive says that with a 14 percent rise in junk-bond prices since Jan. 1, things are looking up.    From Wordnik.com.  [Is An Insurance Crisis Next?] Reference

Even junk-bond issuers (the riskiest corporations) paid less than two percentage points more than the U.S.    From Wordnik.com.  [The credit bubble, the recession and what the Federal Reserve should have done] Reference

Toyota and Nissan are posting huge profits while Ford and GM credit ratings have sunk to junk-bond status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenny Ausubel: The Law of the Land] Reference

During the 1980s junk-bond era, Mr. Black worked with its founder, Michael Milken, a prostate-cancer survivor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Melanoma Survivor Seeks Cure] Reference

Like junk-bond funds, bank-loan funds involve borrowings by companies with less-than-stellar credit prospects.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of Bond Bargains] Reference

To help pay for them, CENCO is now working with the investment bank Warburg Dillon Read on a junk-bond offering.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rendering Unto Laura] Reference

The past two months have been the busiest on record for junk-bond issuance, according to data provider Dealogic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Investors Loading Up on 'Junk'] Reference

There was "The Predators 'Ball," the 1988 book on Michael Milkenomics and the junk-bond empire at Drexel Burnham.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wall Street: A Greed Apart] Reference

He persuaded junk-bond buyers that it was better to go along with his plans than to force the company into bankruptcy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Of The Marionettes] Reference

Boris Kulikov Last year was so tough on junk-bond funds that even the category's best performers were all down at least 5%.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Search of Bond Bargains] Reference

The collapse of the junk-bond market in 1989 and the ensuing credit crunch further hurt the companies in paying off their debt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fall Of The Marionettes] Reference

Or they can have the acquired company sell a junk-bond issue -- for the sole purpose of paying the LBO firm a special dividend.    From Wordnik.com.  [The New Kings Have No Clothes] Reference

The mayor of Melrose, Mass., got voters to approve new taxes last year, but only after Moody's put Melrose on junk-bond status.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bad To The Bond] Reference

Boesky's singing led to guilty pleas of securities violations by, among others, Drexel Burnham Lambert and junk-bond king Michael Milken.    From Wordnik.com.  [Boesky Washes His Dirty Linen In Public] Reference