Corporate borrowing up in April despite interest rates
Recent big mergers and the ongoing debt limit negotiations could be causing companies to borrow more right now.
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Recent big mergers and the ongoing debt limit negotiations could be causing companies to borrow more right now.
The Federal Reserve is meeting Tuesday and Wednesday, and all indications suggest that the central bank will hike interest rates by half a percentage point, double the increase it implemented the last time policymakers met, in mid-March. Winnie Cisar, the global head of strategy at CreditSights, said a lot of companies have taken advantage by refinancing their...
The dollar's choppy start to the year has not dissuaded some investors from betting the U.S. currency will soon resume its march higher, lifted by a hawkish Federal Reserve and rising real yields....
As the U.S. Federal Reserve gears up to taper its huge asset purchases, investors reeling from gyrations in the bond market are scanning the road ahead for signs of how effectively the central bank...
NEW YORK — Investors are watching everything from bond volatility to inflation measures as they try to gauge how an expected unwind of the U.S. Federal…