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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 BarronsMarketWatch

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 MarketWatchBarrons

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

Those we lost in 2020 Bond Buyer

Those we lost in 2020

Howard Sitzer, a senior analyst of municipals at CreditSights and a fixture in the muni bond world,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 29, 2020

Chinese Companies in Pentagon Spotlight Hire Global Banks to Sell Dollar Bonds Wall Street Journal

Chinese Companies in Pentagon Spotlight Hire Global Banks to Sell Dollar Bonds

“If American firms are arranging deals for strategically sensitive Chinese companies that are being targeted…

Ali Shah RajaniArticle published date: September 15, 2020

News on newly issued securities in Americas, 7 December 2020 Primary Markets TV

News on newly issued securities in Americas, 7 December 2020

The update on newly issued equities and bonds this week in the Americas this week,…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 7, 2020

WeBuild looks to get refi across the line with chunky yield IFR

WeBuild looks to get refi across the line with chunky yield

"This looks to be a better structured (and priced) than the abortive attempt earlier this…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 3, 2020

Long-Awaited 5G Auction Expected to Stretch Carriers’ Balance Sheets Wall Street Journal

Long-Awaited 5G Auction Expected to Stretch Carriers’ Balance Sheets

“They all need to have a foot in the door,” said Davis Hebert, an analyst…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 8, 2020

Debt market runs dry for US shale revolution Nasdaq

Debt market runs dry for US shale revolution

"The larger problem from the investor standpoint is that returns have been challenging and the…

Maria AcevedoArticle published date: December 11, 2020

Indian Banks to See Jump in Non-Performing Loans: CreditSights Bloomberg

Indian Banks to See Jump in Non-Performing Loans: CreditSights

Pramod Shenoi, head of Asia Pacific financials research at CreditSights, discusses the outlook for Indian…

Ali Shah RajaniArticle published date: November 27, 2020

A Luxury Developer’s Stumble Shows Rising Default Risks in China Bloomberg

A Luxury Developer’s Stumble Shows Rising Default Risks in China

Guangzhou G&F Properties Co. and Sunshine 100 China Holdings Ltd. are another two vulnerable firms…

Ali Shah RajaniArticle published date: July 16, 2020