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Many people are warning about the growth in corporate credit, even Jerome Powell admits that it's not rosy there. Fully 45% of BBB rated bonds (lowest and large
by H8crilA 7y ago
Many people are warning about the growth in corporate credit, even Jerome Powell admits that it's not rosy there. Fully 45% of BBB rated bonds (lowest and largest in investment grade spectrum) should be junk rated today if judged by leverage ratios alone:
Morgan Stanley, The Nature of the BBBeast https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/fixed-income-advisory-committee/morgan-stanley-nature-of-the-bbbeast.pdf https://www.sec.gov/spotlight/fixed-income-advisory-committe...
And then you have non-systemic but ridiculous things like Brex which issues credit on revenue data alone. Revenue is meaningless, Moviepass had great revenue. And those robocalls you're mentioning. Try a Google search on "revenue based credit" on a mobile phone from the US and read what are the ads saying ...