Despite last year's poor returns, buyers are pouring into emerging-market debt this spring.

Systems promoted by regulators to improve transparencysuch as soon-to-be-implemented FINRA announcements of corporate debt pricingalso wipe out traders' profits.

Systems promoted by regulators to improve transparencysuch as soon-to-be-implemented FINRA announcements of corporate debt pricingalso wipe out traders' profits.

Central banks' easy-money policies are anything but easy money for the biggest banks.

Central banks' easy-money policies are anything but easy money for the biggest banks.

Move by BofA credit trader reflects increasing anxieties about interest rates and falling concern about corporate debt defaults.

Move by BofA credit trader reflects increasing anxieties about interest rates and falling concern about corporate debt defaults.

New credit-swap ETFs provide easy access to harder-to-trade markets; more and more debt managers are using ETFs.