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Ratio of Jobless Americans to Open Positions Continues to Hover at 1.7, and Two More Numbers to Know Barrons

Ratio of Jobless Americans to Open Positions Continues to Hover at 1.7, and Two More Numbers to Know

Investors in Higher-Rated U.S. Corporate Bonds Set to Receive $290 Billion in Coupon Payments in…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: February 10, 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,…

Ali Shah RajaniArticle published date: February 5, 2021

As Americans Flock to Cancun, a Wild Bond Rally Is Ignited BNN Bloomberg

As Americans Flock to Cancun, a Wild Bond Rally Is Ignited

It’s possible, of course, that the rallies have gone too far, too fast. Infections and…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 25, 2021

Mortality hike, virus recovery among life insurance themes for Q4’20 earnings S&P Global

Mortality hike, virus recovery among life insurance themes for Q4’20 earnings

CreditSights analyst Josh Esterov said in an interview that metrics look "reasonably strong" so far in…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 25, 2021

Biden, ESG, hydrogen to make for ‘exciting’ Q4 utilities earnings season S&P Global

Biden, ESG, hydrogen to make for ‘exciting’ Q4 utilities earnings season

"Oh, it is going to be an exciting earnings season for sure," CreditSights analyst Andrew DeVries said…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 25, 2021

January’s supply/demand imbalance may continue throughout 2021 The Bond Buyer

January’s supply/demand imbalance may continue throughout 2021

Olsan, citing CreditSights data, said throughout 2021 it is expected that nearly $300 billion will roll off…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 5, 2021

M&A Wave Bolsters Corporate Bond Pipeline After Issuance Slows BNN Bloomberg

M&A Wave Bolsters Corporate Bond Pipeline After Issuance Slows

While debt issuance is widely expected to drop after shattering records last year, obligations earmarked…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 7, 2021

Bond Market Tax Haven Shrinks as Corporate-Style Munis Surge Yahoo Finance

Bond Market Tax Haven Shrinks as Corporate-Style Munis Surge

Wall Street analysts anticipate that the surge will continue, with CreditSights analyst Patrick Luby forecasting that the…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 12, 2021

Genworth in a ‘fluid and troubling’ situation as debt maturities near S&P Global

Genworth in a ‘fluid and troubling’ situation as debt maturities near

But an IPO of the business also presents longer-term issues for Genworth, CreditSights analyst Josh Esterov noted, as…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 8, 2021

81% of Additional American Electricity Set to Come from Renewables, and Two More Numbers to Know BarronsMarketWatch

81% of Additional American Electricity Set to Come from Renewables, and Two More Numbers to Know

That was for last year, according to an analysis from CreditSights. It’s by far the tightest…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 12, 2021

393,000 Americans Laid Off From Restaurants and Hotels in November, and Two More Numbers to Know MarketWatchBarrons

393,000 Americans Laid Off From Restaurants and Hotels in November, and Two More Numbers to Know

That is up from about 3% before the pandemic. Over the course of 2020, 64…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 13, 2021

US gas volumes, price trajectories in focus as midstream companies ready earnings S&P Global

US gas volumes, price trajectories in focus as midstream companies ready earnings

CreditSights said Jan. 7 that the Permian Basin now has pipeline takeaway of 6.4 million…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 15, 2021

Wells Fargo issues debut rate-reset note Nasdaq

Wells Fargo issues debut rate-reset note

Although the spread over senior credit is attractive to investors and rate resets are well…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 19, 2021

Goldman and Morgan Stanley return to bond primary for TLAC funding Nasdaq

Goldman and Morgan Stanley return to bond primary for TLAC funding

Some of that late-year issuance was to get in ahead of some US$18bn of funding…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 20, 2021

GFOA to release ESG best practice Bond Buyer

GFOA to release ESG best practice

There is not a one size fits all approach, Patrick Luby, municipal strategist at CreditSights, told…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: January 20, 2021

Chinese Property Developers Have Huge Debts to Refinance Wall Street Journal

Chinese Property Developers Have Huge Debts to Refinance

The amount of orders placed for such deals showed many offshore investors are eager to…

Ali Shah RajaniArticle published date: January 16, 2021

The Late-Year Corporate Bond Blitz Is Finally Set to Abate Bloomberg Quint

The Late-Year Corporate Bond Blitz Is Finally Set to Abate

Still, after a record-breaking year of issuance, the approaching holidays should mean activity slows. “We…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 13, 2020

Russell 2000 Up 99% Since March, and Two More Numbers to Know BarronsMarketWatch

Russell 2000 Up 99% Since March, and Two More Numbers to Know

$545 Billion in Investment-Grade U.S. Corporate Debt Set to Mature in 2021 That is according…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 21, 2020

Europe’s utilities see heavy churn as a dozen CEOs depart in less than 2 years S&P Global

Europe’s utilities see heavy churn as a dozen CEOs depart in less than 2 years

While that transformation is still far from complete, the course has largely been set, said…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 23, 2020

Breakingviews – Default wave will hit the little guy hardest Reuters

Breakingviews – Default wave will hit the little guy hardest

Some defaults came, including U.S. retailers Neiman Marcus and J.C. Penney. Creditsights analysts put the U.S. 12-month…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 28, 2020