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...“They don’t trust our management in terms of financial discipline or investment policy,” he said about S&P....
...You can get a deal done for a double-B senior loan at a 300-350bp spread all day long. That market’s wide open....
...“The oil market is waiting,” said Daniel Yergin, author and vice-chair of S&P Global....
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...Robert F Stambaugh is the Miller Anderson & Sherrerd professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Lucian A Taylor is the John B Neff professor in finance at Wharton....
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