Junk bond yield spreads and implications for spx drops...
Oil price recovery has been mostly driven by USD related factors and so the fundamentals are still not where they need to be and the chronic oversupply continues. The banks with the largest energy debt exposure have felt the squeeze as a result and remain relatively risky. This chart shows the performance of the banks with the largest declared Energy debt...
www.bloomberg.com www.cnbc.com www.zerohedge.com Credit ratings of the US firms are deteriorating fast-pace. This year we will see new record in corporate defaults. We have seen this year already 32 global corporate defaults (2009 there was 42, this year we will have more than that!). This could be a turning point of this nonsense rally. Short if the neckline...
I want to start this year with a market I have been watching closely recently, and for good reason. The HYG, which is the most liquid high yield corporate bond exchange traded fund, has taken a beating over the past few months and looks ready to make another move lower. Not only is this trade attractive from a technical perspective, but the fundamentals are on...