- via Bloomberg
- The U.S. trailing 12-month speculative-grade corporate default rate is expected to fall to 2.5% by March 2019 as favorable financing conditions continue, according to S&P Global.
- That would be down from 3.4% for the measure in March 2018 and 4.1% in March 2017.
- In alternate scenarios, the rate could be as low as 2.1% or as high as 3.6%.
- Previously: Corporate defaults total $50B in debt so far this year (April 18, 2016)
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