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Biggest Junk-Bond ETF Draws Most Cash Since 2020 as Debt Rallies BNN Bloomberg

Biggest Junk-Bond ETF Draws Most Cash Since 2020 as Debt Rallies

“The high-yield market has a lot of things going for it,” Winnie Cisar, CreditSights global…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 9, 2023

Food price deceleration ‘very encouraging for the U.S. consumer,’ strategist says Yahoo Finance

Food price deceleration ‘very encouraging for the U.S. consumer,’ strategist says

Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA, and Zachary Griffiths, senior strategist at CreditSights, join…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 12, 2023

Billions Flooding into Junk Bond ETFs Nasdaq

Billions Flooding into Junk Bond ETFs

It’s difficult for investors to resist yields near the highest levels of the past decade…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 14, 2023

Global bond sales off to record start of nearly US$600B BNN Bloomberg

Global bond sales off to record start of nearly US$600B

More “defensive names” in the European real estate sector may look to tap the primary…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 18, 2023

Asia’s Richest Man Plans on IPOs for at Least Five Companies BNN Bloomberg

Asia’s Richest Man Plans on IPOs for at Least Five Companies

Research firm CreditSights red-flagged the Adani Group’s “elevated” leverage last year. The group pushed back…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 21, 2023

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts? the Guardian

Is Elon Musk’s Twitter in too much trouble to cover its debts?

“Twitter should have no problem making its interest payment in late January, which could be…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 22, 2023

China developers’ debt risks persist after support policies’ slow start Reuters

China developers’ debt risks persist after support policies’ slow start

"The prices of the (performing) developers' upcoming dollar bonds are trading close to par, suggesting…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 17, 2023

Utilities may enjoy credit risk advantage over private infrastructure in 2023 S&P Global

Utilities may enjoy credit risk advantage over private infrastructure in 2023

CreditSights noted the ratios of several utilities' funds-from-operations-to-debt are trending positive and many utilities are…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 17, 2023

Frackers Flush With Cash Shed Huge Debt Loads Wall Street Journal

Frackers Flush With Cash Shed Huge Debt Loads

Because shale companies have focused on debt reduction as the priority for the substantial cash…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 11, 2023

Corporations are still borrowing, despite high interest rates NPR

Corporations are still borrowing, despite high interest rates

“There’s always a certain percentage of debt that matures in any given year that will…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 5, 2023

Winding down a rough 2022 with higher hopes for 2023 The Bond Buyer

Winding down a rough 2022 with higher hopes for 2023

Patrick Luby, Senior Market Strategist, Municipal Market Strategist at CreditSights, and John Ceffalio, Senior Research…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 20, 2022

China May Ease ‘Three Red Lines’ Property Rules in Big Shift BNN Bloomberg

China May Ease ‘Three Red Lines’ Property Rules in Big Shift

“This is a signal from the top regulators in an attempt to help restore market…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 5, 2023

Munis rally, outflows lessen; Fed minutes suggest no rate cuts in ’23 The Bond Buyer

Munis rally, outflows lessen; Fed minutes suggest no rate cuts in ’23

When new issue supply picks up or secondary market selling surges, CreditSights strategists said, "long-duration…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 4, 2023

High customer bills, not interest rates, to be tough issue for utilities in 2023 S&P Global

High customer bills, not interest rates, to be tough issue for utilities in 2023

"We do not see any significant or even slightly concerning refinancing risk for utility over…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 30, 2022

Muni ownership continues to decline in 3Q ’22 The Bond Buyer

Muni ownership continues to decline in 3Q ’22

The value of the municipal bond market decreased by 4.3% in the third quarter of…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 30, 2022

Munis weaker once more, outflows continue The Bond Buyer

Munis weaker once more, outflows continue

Coming into 2022, there was "probably a little bit more constructive optimism about the market,"…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 28, 2022

TREASURIES-Yields gain as inflation, personal income rise Yahoo Finance

TREASURIES-Yields gain as inflation, personal income rise

CreditSights’ Griffiths said that the Fed may not hike the rate as far as it…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 23, 2022

ESG debt boom times appears to be a review of 2023 sales recovery Canada Today

ESG debt boom times appears to be a review of 2023 sales recovery

Euro investment-grade and high-yield spread ranges are likely to remain wide as “stubborn inflation and…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 21, 2022

Munis sit back while USTs falter, equities end in the red The Bond Buyer

Munis sit back while USTs falter, equities end in the red

In the latest week, despite volatility in UST and equities, improved market technicals "have stoked…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 19, 2022

UK retailers, restaurants and clubs brace for tough run-up to Christmas the Guardian

UK retailers, restaurants and clubs brace for tough run-up to Christmas

Amarveer Singh and Maria Nurgaziyeva, analysts at CreditSights, a debt rating agency, wrote: “December should…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 19, 2022