Interest Rates · Corporate bonds and credit

High-Yield Bond Spread (ICE BofA)

• High-yield OAS: 3.12% (Oct 5, 2026).
• A year earlier: 2.80% (Oct 3, 2025), a change of +0.32 pts.
• Highest in the last 400 days: 3.46% (Mar 30, 2026); lowest: 2.60% (Aug 28, 2026).

FRED keeps the ICE BofA spreads for the last three years only (ICE licensing). For the long view see the BAA spread.

ICE Data Indices data is copyrighted and reprinted on FRED with permission, so this chart shows the last 400 days, as every third-party series on this site does. The full history is on FRED.

Source: FRED BAMLH0A0HYM2 (ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread). Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. ICE BofA US High Yield Index Option-Adjusted Spread: copyrighted by its owner and reprinted on FRED with permission; retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

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