American corporate-debt market of 2022. Often the only risky bonds that are being issued are the legacy debts of a now ancient-seeming time—when interest rates were low and. Elsewhere, the high-yield market has almost ground to a halt. A paltry $83bn of risky debt has been issued so far in 2022, 75% less than in the same period last year.
The stakes in aggregate are far higher. A steady decline in interest rates over the past 30 years encouraged companies to borrow record amounts. Now the cost of servicing and refinancing that debt mountain is climbing, profits are being dented by rising costs andAmerica’s last big debt crisis, in 2007-09, was in housing. The stock of household debt relative tohad climbed sharply as lenders had aggressively issued mortgages and property prices had soared.
The bond market, as the biggest source of debt, might seem like the natural place to go looking for trouble. But firms that issued bonds are “relative winners” of the rise in interest rates, says Eric Beinstein of JPMorgan Chase, because most bonds pay fixed coupons. Of the $5trn-worth of corporate bonds issued since the start of 2020 some 87% pay fixed coupons. And those coupon rates are at all-time lows. The average coupon on an investment-grade bond is just 3.
The impact of rising rates is likely to be much greater in the syndicated-loan and private-debt markets, which typically issue floating-rate debt . They have also seen explosive growth. Between 2015 and 2021 the value of outstanding high-yield bonds grew a little, from around $1.3trn to $1.5trn. By contrast, syndicated loans grew from $900bn in 2015 to $1.4trn over the same period. Private credit was the runt in 2015, with just $500bn in assets under management. Now, with $1.
Corporate tragedies unveil should they fail or go bankrupt b/c of debt burdens. Root causes can be traced right to the doors of investment bankers. During merger and acquisition frenzy, corporations get acquired and go private leveraged by debt, they costs cut to the bones
No need.They'll get write off's.
seems like a scam, or a ponzi, or a fraud, or something.
Oh no! Who will think of the companies?!
The Federal Reserve is trying to cool the economy by hiking interest rates without causing a downturn , but experts say a ' soft landing ' is looking less probable .
But inflation & jobless people's increased & yes rich more richer