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Originally Posted by jefffou
During the crash of 2008, bonds, that is corporate bonds, correlated with stocks and crashed in almost perfect unison. Solvency was questioned across the board, from large companies to small. And rightly so.
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The only "bonds" I invest in are in the form of shares of Vanguard's Short-Term Bond Index Fund (fund symbol VBISX). It did not correlate with stocks really at all:
Click here for a chart of the Dow vs VBISX from May 29, '08 to Jan 28, '10.
(If the chart doesn't show you the correct date range, just change it at the bottom right)