Sun setting on the tightening cycle
A busy month of news pertaining to the liquidity markets ended on a high note when the US Federal Reserve maintained the target fed funds rate at 5.25-5.50% and pushed the probable first rate hike to late spring at the earliest. Degrees of confidence US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell returned to the word “confidence” […]
Corporate fundamentals: Opportunities and challenges within credit dispersion
Credit fundamentals continued to modestly weaken towards the end of 2023, with both leverage and interest coverage metrics trending towards long-term averages from the lows and highs respectively witnessed a year ago, as shown in Figures 1 and 2 below. Figure 1: Leverage increasing towards long-term averages Source: BofA, as at 31 December 2023. Figure […]
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