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...Anyway, back to the S&P report. They reckon that debt maturities of firms rated single-B or lower will be around $310bn in 2025, rising to $400bn in 2026....
...A discount on the bonds lifted the yield on the single-B rated notes to 11 per cent, according to people briefed on the matter....
...Larry Fink’s empire accounted for almost 10 per cent of MSCI’s overall revenues in 2023, according to the company’s latest 10-Q....
...It launched Amazon Q, an AI-powered assistant for users of its cloud services, in November....
...His Berkshire Hathaway B class shares, at $420, offer a relatively cheaper entry....
...We’ve divided the issuers up by their primary exchange and overlaid short-interest data from S&P Global, accurate to February 23....
...Likewise, S&P Global Mobility surveys suggest stable EV loyalty, measured as the share of EV owners whose next car was an EV, especially for Teslas....
...“To this day, OpenAI, Inc.’s website continues to profess that its charter is to ensure that AGI ‘benefits all of humanity’,” it adds....
...The rating agency in May cut SoftBank’s long-term credit rating from double B plus, its highest non-investment grade, to double B following record investment losses....
...The IEA forecasts crude consumption to increase by 1.3mn barrels per day this year while Opec this week maintained its growth estimates of 2.25mn b/d for 2024....
...He has made it his mission to significantly reduce the proportion of companies with languishing P/B ratios, to bring the TSE to levels closer to those in the US (5 per cent of S&P 500 companies) and Europe...
...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....
...“They’ve been burning cash throughout the last year or so,” said Oliver Vande Stouwe, an analyst at S&P....
...The downgrade from double B plus, S&P’s highest non-investment grade, to double B came after SoftBank’s tech-heavy Vision Funds this month posted record annual investment losses of $39bn....
...Monday The Bank of England hosts an online Q&A with its chief economist Huw Pill on the cost of living and current economic conditions EU, France, Germany, Japan: S&P Global October services purchasing...
...As the TSE’s chief executive, Hiromi Yamaji, told Nikkei Asia earlier this year: “Instead of taking the rigid approach of saying those with P/B ratios below 1 have failed, it makes more sense to urge every...
...The perimeter of the financial junkyard is defined by a rating of BB+ from Fitch and S&P, and Ba1 from Moody’s....
...On current standings CS would be between auto insurer Admiral and Kingfisher, owner of the B&Q DIY chain Banque Cantonale Vaudoise, a regional bank for the Swiss canton of Vaud Draftkings, the US fantasy...
...“We’re in a rough patch right now with the global economic situation,” says Kevin Murphy, principal metals and mining analyst at S&P Global Commodity Insights....
...Grabinski calculates that on a trailing 12-month basis, S&P cost growth has outstripped revenue growth for the fourth month in a row....
...Creed-star Michael B. Jordan (a minor investor in Premier League team Bournemouth) and Main Street Advisors are coming in too....
...There’s a lot of companies in the double-B category that were downgrades from triple-B. They’re better companies. It’s a different high-yield than, say, 10 years ago ....
...t=4OHf5BkjuotctykSztrLvA&s=19 The company also excitedly told investors that the total volume of flooring it sold exceeded the equivalent of “more than 29,500 football fields” for the first time....
...S&P downgraded its rating based on the increased debt size after the deal. It described the deal as “notable” for Nasdaq, although “not transformational”....
...The Covid-19 lockdowns that started in 2020 and continued intermittently through 2021, brought the experience economy to a halt and boosted retailers such as Currys and DIY chain B&Q, as people stuck at...
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