corporate-debt

Investors say the appetite for investment-grade debt is being pulled to the bigger deals at the expense of smaller offerings as banks continue to pare the amount of corporate-debt securities they hold as inventory.

For Bond Investors, Bigger Is Better Katy Burne 2012

Some say corporate-debt markets were hit especially hard in the selloff last summer because traders lost money on both their corporate-bond bets and the positions they put in place to offset the risks of those bets.

Is It a Debt Rally if Nobody Trades? Matt Phillips 2011

Still, though corporate-debt issuance has been busy, much of the borrowing has been to refinance old debt, so the net supply of new bonds in the market is still tight.

End of QE2 Raises Questions for Bonds' Bull Run Mark Gongloff 2011

And last month, corporate-debt issuance in Canada totaled $9.6 billion, the richest January on record, according to BMO Capital.

Canadians Dish Out Dollar Debt Karen Johnson 2012

Dynegy announced the new loans on Monday along with a transformative corporate-debt restructuring—managed by the power producer's investment bank, Credit Suisse—that will split its coal and natural-gas generating assets into two separate entities that will be bankruptcy remote from the parent holding company, Dynegy Holdings Inc.

Dynegy Lawyers Play Down Refinancing, Restructuring Liability Matt Wirz 2011

The rating firm cut its corporate-debt rating and its rating for Sino-Forest's senior unsecured notes and convertible bonds to CCC- from B and then withdrew them altogether because of "heightened information risks."

S&P Pulls Rating on Forest Firm Ben Dummett 2011

This is a turnaround for the more than a $1 trillion corner of the corporate-debt market that faced distress this month and plunged to its lowest level since 2009, when its risk premiums over comparable Treasury yields hit 9.10 percentage points.

Investors Flood Into 'Junk' Funds Prabha Natarajan 2011

Selling related to corporate-debt supply also weighed in, they said.

Treasurys Shed Gains as 'Fat Finger' Error Gets Caught Min Zeng 2011

In fact, many distressed portfolio mangers have been forced out of corporate-debt markets and have switched to buying troubled stocks or mortgage-backed bonds.

For Vultures, Slim Pickings Matt Wirz 2011

"To the extent that the end of QE2 results in reduced corporate-debt issuance and slower corporate expansion, it would represent a headwind for both the economy and equity markets," J.P. Morgan analysts wrote during the second quarter.

Buy Bonds or Bye, Bonds? Matt Phillips 2011