A record number of blue-chip firms swarmed the US corporate bond market on Tuesday, taking advantage of cheaper borrowing costs as they look to issue debt ahead of the US presidential election.

Credit markets are breathing a sigh of relief after inflation data showed price pressures are cooling broadly, but a weakening economy poses fresh risks to corporate debt.

Some money managers that buy junk bonds have been pouring money into investment-grade notes instead, because the yields can be almost as high now.

Junk-rated US companies have seen their interest costs rise after the Federal Reserve’s rate-hike campaign, but profits haven’t kept up, putting a squeeze on finances and underscoring a key risk for investors in high-yield debt as the trend persists.

The $1.4 trillion US junk-bond market is getting junkier, as more debt gets either downgraded or elevated out of the high-yield universe altogether, leaving greater potential risks for investors.

To have a shot at taming inflation, the Federal Reserve is intent on tightening financial conditions across the economy. But they haven’t made much of a dent in corporate America yet.

US blue-chip companies unleashed a wave of bond sales on Monday as borrowers look to sell new debt in a week jam-packed with bond auctions, central bank meetings and fresh economic data.

For the past 18 months, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell has frantically been trying to break Americans' borrow-and-spend habits. It’s critical to his fight against inflation.

Credit investors are turning more optimistic that the Federal Reserve will pull inflation under control without shoving the US economy into a deep recession.

BlackRock Inc.’s Rick Rieder says US high-yield risk premiums are not wide enough to entice investors, and that there are other areas of credit to consider allocating to.

Corporate credit has failed to live up to lofty expectations of double-digit returns so far this year, fueling a string of bearish bets into the second half of 2023.

US corporate bond investors are getting a new artificial intelligence-powered tool aimed at helping them more easily make electronic trades with increased transparency in the notoriously opaque market.

US companies’ earnings are strong enough that money managers like T. Rowe Price Group Inc. and PGIM Inc. expect corporate bonds to outperform Treasuries over the next 12 months, even if the economy suffers.

Slowly but surely, investment bankers from New York to London are chipping away at the tens of billions of dollars in leveraged buyout debt that remains famously stuck on their balance sheets.

Wall Street is struggling to whittle down the roughly $37.5 billion in risky corporate loans stuck on their books -- and the pile of so-called hung debt may be about to swell further as another large buyout financing stumbles.

U.S. junk bonds just posted their worst start to a year ever, and their dour performance last month made them a potentially surprising victim of the Federal Reserve’s looming rate-hike campaign.

Sales of U.S. leveraged loans are likely to stay strong for at least the next few months thanks to private equity buyout activity that is showing few signs of abating.

Bitcoin jumped to a record high after Mastercard Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. moved to make it easier for customers to use cryptocurrencies.

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