This increased demand has been met with an equally large increase in supply
as corporate bond issuance has roughly doubled since 2008.
In a year of
record corporate bond issuance from low cost / easily available financing in an environment where investors are looking anywhere for high - yield returns, corporates are under performing.
So, it is a very different market than it was 10 years ago, and you're going to see a lot
of corporate bond issuance as these infrastructure projects go out there, and you can capture some pretty good yields and you know what you're buying because it's a corporate bond.
CORPORATE FINANCING NEWS High -
yield corporate bond issuance and trading have slowed considerably in the face of uncertainty about Federal Reserve monetary policy, at a time when chairman Ben Bernanke is about to hand over the reins to Janet Yellen,...
2017 was the sixth consecutive year of record
U.S. corporate bond issuances, as companies continued to take advantage of the accommodative environment created by low interest rates and strong investor demand.
Business credit has been falling, but this has been more than offset by increases in non-intermediated sources of funding, such as equity raisings and
corporate bond issuance.
Yet
corporate bond issuance has also plummeted, and regulators are slowing IPO approvals.