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...Pension funds are piling into UK corporate bonds, encouraging some French and German companies to issue sterling debt for the first time....
...Sovereign borrowers with low credit ratings are back in bond markets....
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...Even so, analysts say there are trade-offs to using corporate bonds as collateral....
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...European investors have been piling into the region’s risky corporate bonds to scoop up the chunky yields on offer, as they grow more confident in companies’ ability to refinance their debt....
...This year’s global tally of corporate defaults stands at 29, the highest year-to-date count since the 36 recorded during the same period in 2009, according to the rating agency....
...Ukraine’s bonds are trading at about 25-30 cents on the dollar. The Ukrenergo bond has risen from 18 cents on the dollar a year ago to about 36 cents....
...DRSK invests 90-95 per cent of its assets in investment-grade corporate bonds, with the balance used to buy call options on large-cap stocks and sectors in the S&P 500....
...GS found in last year’s study of interest costs that if companies kept refinancing debt at prevailing rates — Treasury yields were pretty close to current levels then — the median corporate bond’s coupon...
...Structurally, diversified corporate bonds tend to overcompensate owners for credit losses....
...European stocks have shrugged off the impact of higher yields, hitting an all-time high on Thursday morning pulled higher by a clutch of corporate earnings....
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