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5% YTW for High-Yield ‘Not Too Shabby’: Creditsights’ Cisar Bloomberg

5% YTW for High-Yield ‘Not Too Shabby’: Creditsights’ Cisar

Creditsights Global Head of Credit Strategy Winnie Cisar says high-yield debt has become "much more…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 25, 2022

Mortality trends again to take center stage on life insurers’ earnings dockets S&P Global

Mortality trends again to take center stage on life insurers’ earnings dockets

"Ultimately we're going to be very carefully observing this interaction between severity, ages, total number…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 24, 2022

Big fish eat smaller fish in Appalachia: More consolidation expected in 2022 S&P Global

Big fish eat smaller fish in Appalachia: More consolidation expected in 2022

"Deals are growing in size with a greater focus on consolidating around a core asset…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 21, 2022

Chinese Property Bonds Soar as Investors Bet Worst Is Over Bloomberg

Chinese Property Bonds Soar as Investors Bet Worst Is Over

A relaxation of presales restrictions “could be the biggest and arguably most important easing measure…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 19, 2022

Prospective property buyers in China are taking a ‘wait and see’ approach, says analyst CNBC

Prospective property buyers in China are taking a ‘wait and see’ approach, says analyst

Zerlina Zeng of CreditSights says prospective property buyers in China are waiting for more details…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 19, 2022

Downside risks are building for the Chinese economy AusBiz

Downside risks are building for the Chinese economy

However, not everyone was shocked by the move. Zerlina Zeng from CreditSights certaintly wasn't, suggesting…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 17, 2022

Chinese Property Giant Country Garden Endures Sector’s Latest Selloff Wall Street Journal

Chinese Property Giant Country Garden Endures Sector’s Latest Selloff

Given weak investor sentiment, “even the stronger developers may experience volatility because of rumors and…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 17, 2022

Top Wall Street Banks Will Be Flooding Debt Markets Before Fed Rate Hikes Bloomberg

Top Wall Street Banks Will Be Flooding Debt Markets Before Fed Rate Hikes

CreditSights’ Jesse Rosenthal and Peter Simon see an even bigger plunge: 35% to 45%. "The…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 13, 2022

Huge Wave of Upgrades Is Surging to U.S. Corporate Bond Market BNN Bloomberg

Huge Wave of Upgrades Is Surging to U.S. Corporate Bond Market

Junk-rated companies should benefit, too. Dell Technologies Inc. has already been lifted to investment-grade status…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 7, 2022

China’s next debt crisis will be municipal Reuters

China’s next debt crisis will be municipal

Now land sales are forecast to fall another 20% this year after a bruising 2021,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 10, 2022

Enel Offers Climate-Linked Bond Triplet After Junk Jumbo BNN Bloomberg

Enel Offers Climate-Linked Bond Triplet After Junk Jumbo

With interest-rate hikes looming in developed markets, it’s no surprise Enel is seizing on relatively…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 10, 2022

Upgrades mix with labor strife ahead of Chicago school bond sale Bond Buyer

Upgrades mix with labor strife ahead of Chicago school bond sale

Spreads at 115 to 120 bps would make the paper "very attractive, particularly compared to…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 11, 2022

Expect the unexpected in 2022 Global Capital Asia

Expect the unexpected in 2022

When it comes to the debt market, property companies are not out of the woods…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 12, 2022

Huge Wave of Upgrades Is Surging to U.S. Corporate Bond Market BNN Bloomberg

Huge Wave of Upgrades Is Surging to U.S. Corporate Bond Market

“Firms that may be up next in the rising-star category should see spreads tighten as…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 7, 2022

Expect loan growth for Asia-Pacific banks in 2022, says financial research firm CNBC

Expect loan growth for Asia-Pacific banks in 2022, says financial research firm

Pramod Shenoi of CreditSights says Asia-Pacific banks are “well diversified,” and the company expects they…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 5, 2022

FIASI Women in Fixed Income Events

FIASI Women in Fixed Income

Fitch Ratings and CreditSights are proud to sponsor the annual Women in Fixed Income conference…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 6, 2022

Oil, gas upstream recovers from 2020 price crash with low probability of default S&P Global

Oil, gas upstream recovers from 2020 price crash with low probability of default

"The commodity price rally was certainly a key driver that enabled the strong cash flow…

creditsightsArticle published date: January 5, 2022

Muni ETFs Multiply In 2021 ETF.com

Muni ETFs Multiply In 2021

In this conversation with ETF.com, Luby shares his insights on the muni ETF market, his…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 27, 2021

How advisors are using muni bonds in client portfolios amid a low-rate environment Bond Buyer

How advisors are using muni bonds in client portfolios amid a low-rate environment

CreditSights Senior Municipal Strategist Patrick Luby said that a generation ago, when the bond market was…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 29, 2021

Early coal exits, transmission spending to help utilities’ ESG records in 2022 S&P Global

Early coal exits, transmission spending to help utilities’ ESG records in 2022

"The ESG investment thesis for utilities has been shifting over the past one-to-two years, with…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 29, 2021