CreditSights News & Blog

The Fed Will End Emergency Relief for Banks. It Might Not Make Much Difference for Markets. Barrons

The Fed Will End Emergency Relief for Banks. It Might Not Make Much Difference for Markets.

And none of the banks will run foul of the rule once it’s imposed again,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: March 19, 2021

Iceland splashes out £150m – but keeps £40m Covid relief The Times

Iceland splashes out £150m – but keeps £40m Covid relief

Neill Keaney, an analyst with CreditSights, said: “Taxpayers will rightly ask why Iceland claims it…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: March 21, 2021

PPL plans to target balance sheet, growth through National Grid asset swap S&P Global

PPL plans to target balance sheet, growth through National Grid asset swap

"CreditSights said the deal "came in well above expectations" and is "incredibly positive for PPL…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: March 18, 2021

Vonovia shows investors are still keen for green Nasdaq

Vonovia shows investors are still keen for green

The ever-increasing demand for green bonds from investors, meanwhile, is supporting their expected performance. Given…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: March 17, 2021

GE’s Credit-Market Giant Caps Decade-Long Descent Into Obscurity BNN Bloomberg

GE’s Credit-Market Giant Caps Decade-Long Descent Into Obscurity

From an immediate impact on leverage perspective, we don’t necessarily see this as a big…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: March 11, 2021

U.K. Retail-Credit Outlook Boosted Ahead of Government Spending Spree Bloomberg

U.K. Retail-Credit Outlook Boosted Ahead of Government Spending Spree

I think there’s a bit of a Goldilocks scenario priced in,” said Neill Keaney, a…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: March 3, 2021

Local SOE/LGFV dollar bonds in Chongqing, Yunnan under selling pressure IFR

Local SOE/LGFV dollar bonds in Chongqing, Yunnan under selling pressure

A default by Chongqing Energy, if confirmed, would not be a big surprise given the…

Ali Shah RajaniArticle published date: March 3, 2021

Munis sell off in double digits as correction continues Bond Buyer

Munis sell off in double digits as correction continues

"Even though fund flows have been positive and the new-issue calendar appears to be manageable,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 22, 2021

Turbine blades face checks after Boeing 777 engine explosion Yahoo Finance

Turbine blades face checks after Boeing 777 engine explosion

At the time, CreditSights analyst Roger King called the deal a “kitchen sink” offering because…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 24, 2021

Puerto Rico Bonds, MBIA Stocks Jump on Restructuring Settlement Wall Street Journal

Puerto Rico Bonds, MBIA Stocks Jump on Restructuring Settlement

The most recent iteration stands out because for the first time it includes “conditional support”…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 24, 2021

AIGs stock makes gain, Genworth tanks after earnings reports S&P Global

AIGs stock makes gain, Genworth tanks after earnings reports

CreditSights analyst Josh Esterov said in an interview that it was a "pretty ugly headline…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 19, 2021

Surging Texas Power Prices Promise Both Doom and Riches Bloomberg Quint

Surging Texas Power Prices Promise Both Doom and Riches

But for generators whose plants shut down due to frozen instruments, limited natural gas supplies…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 16, 2021

Borrowing Binge Reaches Riskiest Companies Wall Street Journal

Borrowing Binge Reaches Riskiest Companies

One company that is capitalized on current market conditions is Community Health Systems, one of…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 15, 2021

New Business Applications to the IRS Up 45%, and Two More Numbers to Know BarronsMarketWatch

New Business Applications to the IRS Up 45%, and Two More Numbers to Know

Motor Vehicles Sales Drop 27% in Five Major European Markets in January Compared to 2020…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 12, 2021

Carnival’s Latest Debt Sale Comes With Less Onerous Terms Than Earlier in Pandemic Barrons

Carnival’s Latest Debt Sale Comes With Less Onerous Terms Than Earlier in Pandemic

An easing of onerous credit conditions for Carnival started last year, according to CreditSights. “In November…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 12, 2021

Skyrocketing Texas Power Prices May Enrich Some, Bankrupt Others BNN Bloomberg

Skyrocketing Texas Power Prices May Enrich Some, Bankrupt Others

But for generators whose plants shut down due to frozen instruments, limited natural gas supplies…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 16, 2021

Billionaire Asda buyers raise £2.75bn in record sterling junk bond sale Financial Times

Billionaire Asda buyers raise £2.75bn in record sterling junk bond sale

In a reflection of the dearth of returns on offer in the junk bond market,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 11, 2021

Alibaba Sells $5 Billion of Bonds Wall Street Journal

Alibaba Sells $5 Billion of Bonds

Joel Liauw, an analyst at CreditSights, said the company was one of Asia’s strong borrowers,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 5, 2021

Buy coal-fired power plants, shut them down and reap cost-plus profits Financial Times

Buy coal-fired power plants, shut them down and reap cost-plus profits

Andy DeVries of CreditSights said: “There would be other targets (of rate based coal-fired power)…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 5, 2021

FIASI BOARD MEMBER INTERVIEWED BY UPENN’S WHARTON FINTECH BLOG FIASI

FIASI BOARD MEMBER INTERVIEWED BY UPENN’S WHARTON FINTECH BLOG

FIASI Board member, Membership Committee Chair and CreditSights Head of Investment Grade Credit provides valuable market and…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 9, 2021