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Full Circle: The Resilience of Leveraged Finance
After Q1 2025 began with positive momentum, Q2 has seen some of the largest bouts of volatility in the recent past. The April 2 tariff announcements sent markets on a series of extraordinary swings. On April 8, the S&P 500® was down 15% YTD and VIX® spiked to 52.33.1 However, positive trade developments that followed…
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Bond Beginnings and Beyond
American political consultant James Carville once commented that he’d like to be resurrected as the bond market because, “you can intimidate everyone.” As of July 2023, the global bond market comprises about USD 135 trillion of securities, of which rated corporate debt represents USD 23 trillion.1 U.S. corporate debt makes up roughly half of the…
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