Bursting The ‘Bubble’ Talk: Today’s Leveraged Loan Market, By The Numbers
- Monday, July 21, 2014, 16:03
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From stories in the popular press to dire analytical reports to pronouncements from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen to statements from the OCC, a growing chorus is warning of a bubble in the leveraged loan market. Driven in part by the liquidity that (ironically) has resulted from the Fed’s zero-interest-rate/QE policy, banks and other lenders are said to be seeding the loan market with increasingly aggressive transactions and could end up reaping a bitter harvest of high defaults and stinging credit losses.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/spleverage/2014/07/21/bursting-the-bubble-talk-todays-leveraged-loan-market-by-the-numbers/