Insights & Analysis: Weakened US economy and tariff uncertainty unsettles corporates
Trump’s long-dreaded and much-amended tariffs increased the US tariff rate to more than 18% this month – up more than eightfold on 2024’s levels....
Insight & Analysis: Municipals’ primary and secondary markets hit records
According to Sifma data, municipals’ primary markets issued a record US$162.8 billion of new debt in the second quarter of 2025, eclipsing the previous...
Rules & Ratings: EM credit risk on the rise, says Fitch
Fitch Ratings has revised its sector outlooks for APAC, Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa sovereign to ‘deteriorating’ from ‘neutral’ as credit risk rises.
Credit risk...
China takes a bigger slice of global FI pie
China has seen a growing share of global fixed income markets outstanding since 2014, with SIFMA data showing it to be one of the...
Insights & Analysis: UBS tracks rising quality in US high yield
In an analysis of US credit fundamentals for high yield (HY) debt, investment banking giant, UBS, via its HOLT valuation service acquired from Credit...
Rules & Ratings: Big Beautiful Bill highlights US credit cracks
Fitch Ratings has adjusted a quarter of its US sector outlooks for 2025 to ‘deteriorating’.
The agency cited slowing growth, increasing uncertainty and the expectation...
Insights & Analysis: Man Group quants qualify today’s economic regime
Amara Mulliner, a quant researcher at Man AHL and University of Cambridge economics graduate, and her colleagues have proposed a new way to qualify...
Rules & Ratings: S&P’s APAC sovereign ratings stable – for now
No changes were made to S&P Global’s 21 APAC sovereign ratings or outlooks in H1 2025, suggesting an expectation that the global economy will...
Rules & Ratings: S&P Global brings standard identifiers to private credit
S&P Global has expanded its LoanX IDs (LXIDs) to provide private credit identifiers.
The LXIDs identify instruments across counterparties and datasets, enabling them to be...
Insights and analysis: Goldman cuts US recession probability to 30%
In a research piece from 21 June, Goldman Sachs economist Jan Hatzius provides an improved outlook on US economic conditions as tariffs expectations stabilised....
