Market Extra: Investors pile into risky commercial real estate debt, even as Fed warns of trouble

Prices are soaring on riskier bonds used to finance office towers, hotels, malls and other properties, even though the debt could take painful losses if distress picks up, a scenario the Federal Reserve is carefully watching.

Prices are soaring on riskier bonds used to finance office towers, hotels, malls and other properties, even though the debt could take painful losses if distress picks up, a scenario the Federal Reserve is carefully watching.