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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

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 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