Highly indebted 'zombie' companies control more than 2 million U.S. jobs

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Heavily indebted companies have helped to lead the stock market charge higher.

that track, among other issues, so-called fallen angels that fell from the low parts of investment grade before the crisis to junk now.SPDR Bloomberg Barclays High Yield Bond"The zombie companies are those firms that are able to borrow in effect cheaper than they should given their revenue, and they're able to stay in business," said Steve Blitz, chief U.S. economist at TS Lombard.

The distinction is that the central bank is looking to keep the markets flowing, but it is not looking to be a major player and its programs are aimed at market functioning and not picking winners and losers. "What they're talking about is not so much zombie firms but firms that would otherwise just shut down," Blitz said. The companies "can say, look, we can borrow money over the next few years. These aren't grants."

 

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how is that going to work out?

On top of the 30 plus million already laid off?

Shell of an article or just void of facts. Name the companies and the data. Why so ambiguous if this is a huge problem facing millions of Americans. Unless you just needed to push an article out the door to meet a deadline, get paid, and give ads somewhere to live... waiting.

This is the Donald Trump way. Borrow so much that you become a problem for the creditor -- here, the United States.

Is CNBC one of them? You boys have plenty of zombies on air.

Thank you Chairman Jay Powell and Sec. Steve Mnuchin for basically supporting the Zombification of the us economy. Unfortunately, once you stop feeding these zombies, they are going to turn on the economy.

These companies need to be allowed to collapse so healthy companies can grow in their place. Propping up defunct companies through bailouts is a socialist policy that creates an irrational market.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us

Sounds like socialism

What level zombies are they though?

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