• Sep 05, 2024

Companies Are Racing to the US Debt Market — and Here’s Why

(Bloomberg) -- The surge of borrowing in the US corporate debt market, on the surface, looks odd. Despite all the excitement about the Federal Reserve’s long-awaited pivot toward easing monetary policy, it hasn’t done so yet. In fact, its benchmark interest rate is still pinned at a more than two-decade high. But up and down corporate America, at blue-chip businesses and those heavily burdened by debts, executives are turning to Wall Street to borrow cash at a blistering pace. It’s the sort of s

  • Sep 05, 2024

Japanese Firm Tests Market With Riskier Bond Deal as Rates Rise

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