bond market

Cultural  

1. The market in which bonds are traded before their maturity. If interest rates decline after a bond has been issued, the value of bonds already issued with higher rates of interest will rise, and hence the bond market is said to be “up.” A rise in interest rates will lower the value of bonds issued with lower rates of interest and send the bond market “down.”

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Example Sentences

Data-center developers have raised billions more in the high-yield bond market, while upstart AI cloud companies are borrowing from banks and private-credit firms to fund purchases of chips.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

The Bank of Japan is scheduled to make outright purchases across multiple sectors of Japan’s government bond market on Thursday.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026

One way to gauge how much those pressures could worsen is to monitor where the bond market expects inflation to go next.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

The bond market may now be pricing in a “soft landing plus” scenario, he said.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 4, 2026

It was hard all over again to escape the big-time stock market brokers and win acceptance from the people inside the subprime mortgage bond market.

From "The Big Short" by Michael Lewis