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The article reports on the impact of interest rate increases on the U.S. corporate bond market. It shows the financial struggle of companies and the vulnerability of businesses in industries like retail, manufacturing and real estate and offers outlook from credit rating agency Moody's on general borrowing conditions for companies. It presents cases of bankruptcies including cosmetics company Revlon and retail chain Bed Bath & Beyond and identifies other signs of distress for businesses.

The article discusses challenges facing Citgo Petroleum Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of Venezuelan state-owned oil company Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA). Topics discussed include the possible seizure of Citgo by creditors and other businesses if PDVSA fails to make payment on its 2020 bonds, refineries and gasoline stations owned by Citgo in the U.S., and the call on President Donald Trump to take actions to prevent Citgo's splitting.

The article focuses on Federal Reserve's first-ever foray into the corporate bond market will come to a final close in coming months, with the central bank announcing that it will sell off its exchange-traded fund investments and direct bond holdings.

The article reports on the strong demand among investors of the first international bond offering from oil giant Saudi Aramco launched in April 2019 topping 60 billion U.S. dollars. Topics covered include the eagerness among investors despite concerns that the firm's fortunes are tied to its owner, the Saudi government and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, and how Aramco's reputation as a Western-style business has made it attractive to international investors.

The article discusses the consequences of the U.S. Federal Reserve's (Fed) interest rate reversal in 2019. Topics discussed include how the Fed's decision helped halt and partly reverse December 2018's stock sell-off, stress in the market for corporate bonds in December 2018 and implications of the rising value of the dollar.

The article reports that the European Central Bank will stop adding to its stock of government and corporate bonds at the end of December 2018, the so-called quantitative easing program it has used to hold down interest rates and encourage lending. Topics discussed include implication of the wind-down of the bond-buying program and quantitative easing as of the eurozone.

The article reports that prices for government and corporate bonds in China have slumped in December 2016. Topics mentioned include the decision of the government to temporarily restrain some trading and make emergency loans to struggling financial institutions, the decision of the Federal Reserve to raise short-term interest rates, and Beijing's efforts to wring excess money from its financial system.

The authors discuss the economic risks in the corporate bond market and whether current bank regulations can manage financial crises.

The article focuses about junk and government bonds as well as highlights the risk of owning quality corporate bonds.

The article discusses the relevance of the U.S. Trust Indenture Act of 1939 in bondholders efforts to ensure that companies pay guaranteed debt payments. Topics addressed include the application of the law to lawsuits regarding the restructuring efforts by casino company Caesars Entertainment Operating Company and the Education Management Corporation, as well as U.S. judges' rulings on the law.

The article discusses a dispute between casino company Caesars Entertainment and corporate-bond investors who hold Caesars' debt. Topics addressed include Caesars purchase of senior unsecured bonds due in 2015 and 2016 from some investors in order to remove its guarantee of principal and interest payments to other investors from its indentures, as well as well as lawsuits resulting from Caesars' actions.

The article discusses the influence of low interest rates in the U.S. on companies' increasing efforts to sell corporate bonds in order to raise funds as of September 11, 2013. Topics addressed include telecommunications company Verizon's sale of bonds to finance a buy out of telecommunications company Vodafone's stake of its shares, and the role of low financing costs in encouraging mergers and acquisitions.

The article discusses the implications of technology company Apple's decision to borrow money through corporate bonds in order to issue shareholder payouts, highlighting Apple and other corporations strategies to avoid paying taxes. Topics addressed include corporate tax policies in Great Britain and the U.S., companies' pursuit of offshore investment in order to avoid paying taxes on profits in the United States, and possible policies to encourage companies to pay taxes in the U.S.

The article offers business news briefs on topics including the first major corporate bonds issued by Argentinian bank Banco Hipotecario in the international markets, the housing production rate in the U.S., and a projected economic growth in Japan in 2016.

Several charts are presented which shows the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, the government bonds and the foreign exchange rate.

Several tables and charts related to economics in the U.S. are presented including the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, 52-week total returns of corporate bond, and manufacturing index as economic indicator.

Several charts and tables are presented which provide information related to market gauges in New York as of June 22, 2013 including the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, stock market indexes, and government bond.

Several charts are presented depicting market trends in the U.S. in 2013 including the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, Nasdaq Composite and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Trace Corporate Bond Data.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the article "A Stealth Tax Subsidy for Business Faces New Scrutiny" in the March 5, 2013 issue.

ONE thing is certain this fall: there will be a lot of talk about taxes. But without a broad agreement, a series of automatic increases will take effect next year. What are investors to do? While there are still three months until Election Day, recent action in Washington did little to suggest the spirit of compromise is in the air. The Senate has voted to raise taxes on the wealthy, while the House has voted to keep taxes low for everyone. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Among the midsize, family-owned companies that power the German economy, it has long been an article of faith: credit comes from the friendly local banker, not from cold and distant capital markets. So Peter H. Leibold was breaking from the norm last year when he decided to finance the expansion of his company, which makes wood pellets for heating and energy generation, by selling corporate bonds. The company, German Pellets, raised more than 80 million euros ($102 million). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Advance Auto Parts executives said the timing was right. The company wanted to capture more business by adding stores and expanding its fleet as motorists kept cars longer and needed more parts. So in January, looking at historically low interest rates and reassured by relative calm in the financial markets, the company issued $300 million in 10-year corporate bonds that pay investors 4.5 percent interest a year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

WASHINGTON -- The Federal Reserve announced an unconventional plan on Wednesday to reduce borrowing costs for businesses and consumers, trying once more to spur economic growth despite urgings from Republicans that it refrain from any expansion of its stimulus program. The Fed said that it would invest $400 billion in long-term Treasury securities over the next nine months, using money raised by selling its holdings of short-term federal debt, in an attempt to drive down interest rates on mortgage loans, corporate bonds and other forms of credit. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Jim Casey remembers the fast times when Michael R. Milken ruled Wall Street as the billionaire king of junk bonds. But now even those heady days of the 1980s, when Mr. Milken played kingmaker and rainmaker in the great takeover wars of that era, seem a little tame. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Twenty-one months ago, as 2009 began, the financial world was in a shambles. Virtually every market associated with the uninsured, ''shadow'' banking system had closed down. There were jokes about what specialists in securitization asked in their new jobs. (Would you like fries with that, sir?) Now, almost every securitization market has reopened. Some are thriving. Even markets that involve lending to borrowers with poor credit, like leveraged loans and junk bonds, have recovered to a significant extent. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

FRANKFURT -- The European Central Bank disclosed Monday that it had bought 16.5 billion euros in bonds in the first week since taking the unprecedented step of intervening in markets to halt a sell-off of Greek and other European debt. The bank did not say which countries' debt it was buying, how much it would spend in the future, or whether it bought any corporate bonds. The 16.5 billion euros ($21 billion) was considered a relatively small amount for the market. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Investors flocking to junk bonds need to think twice after allowing risk premiums on high-yield investments to get dangerously low. It's good that fewer companies are failing. But high debt prices don't leave room for 2010's biggest financial market risk: the potential fallout when central banks withdraw from markets. Investors in high-yield bonds typically build in a worst-case cushion. In this case, that doesn't seem to be happening. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The swift rally in stock markets this year caught everyone's attention. But with far less fanfare, a frenzy has been taking place in the market for corporate bonds. When credit markets practically shut down last year, businesses had to pay huge premiums to raise money from investors, offering returns of 10 to 20 percent to anyone who would buy a company's debt. Now, investors are the ones paying higher prices as they race back into the bond markets, where companies and governments go to raise money for new projects and mergers, and to finance their daily operations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

ARE the credit markets showing some signs of revival? At first glance, it appears that the answer is yes, at least for high-quality corporate borrowers. The volume of investment-grade corporate bonds issued in Europe and Asia in the first three months of this year was the highest ever for any quarter, while in the United States the total fell just short of the record. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

A HOLIDAY WEEK The bond market will close early on Thursday ahead of the Good Friday holiday, when markets are closed. ECONOMIC DATA Reports will include consumer credit (Tuesday); wholesale trade inventories for February (Wednesday); and the trade deficit for February (Thursday). [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Bank of England and the European Central Bank both cut key interest rates by half a percentage point on Thursday, pushing the rates to their lowest levels ever. At the same time, the British central bank took an unprecedented step intended to pump cash into the economy by buying government and corporate bonds. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Facing Japan's worst recession in decades, the Bank of Japan said on Thursday that it would buy 1 trillion yen, or $10.7 billion, in corporate bonds, extend its purchases of commercial paper and maintain its near-zero interest rate to ease a crippling credit squeeze. The central bank voted unanimously to maintain its key policy rate at 0.1 percent. It said it would also buy prime-grade corporate bonds and commercial paper, or short-term corporate debt, until September, six months longer than planned. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE NEWS Investors wary of taking on any risk actually bid down the yield on short-term Treasury notes to zero and briefly even below zero, meaning they were paying more to buy the notes than they will receive in principal and interest when the notes mature. BEHIND THE NEWS You know the financial markets are deeply nervous when a guaranteed loss on three-month Treasuries is seen as a better idea than taking a chance on any alternative investment, from stocks to bonds to commodities to bank deposits. Economists worry that such caution could slow a recovery by choking off investments in stocks and corporate bonds that businesses need to finance their operations. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

THE credit markets led stocks and the economy into trouble, and they may help lead the way out when a recovery begins. Some bond specialists contend that prices are so low and yields so high that they are immune from anything short of disaster -- and maybe even that, too. Yields on bonds that carry credit risk, which these days means almost everything, have exceeded or approached record levels, compared with Treasury bonds with similar maturities. Investment-grade corporate bonds, the paper issued by sound, blue-chip companies, yield close to 5 percentage points more than Treasuries. Just after the 2001 recession, the spread peaked at about 2.5 percentage points. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Andrea Mae Scribner and Ahsim Raza Khan are to be married Sunday evening at the Crowne Plaza in Warwick, R.I. Imam Talal Eid, a Muslim cleric, is to officiate. Next Saturday evening, they will celebrate again with a ring ceremony and a reading of vows at the Ritz-Carlton Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. The bride and the bridegroom work at Morgan Stanley in New York. The bride trades corporate bonds and credit derivatives, and the bridegroom trades commercial mortgage-backed securities. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Responding to criticism that ratings firms underrate municipal debt relative to corporate bonds, one such agency, Moody's Investor Service, said on Thursday that it was considering changes to its ratings system. Under the proposal, cities and states could request a corporate-scale rating for their tax-exempt bonds in addition to a standard municipal rating. Moody's is seeking comments on the change, which it says could go into effect in May. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The article reports that data from the U.S. Treasury Department show that foreign investors put $42.5 billion in American stocks and $68.6 billion in American corporate bonds and $42.5 billion in May 2007. The data show that American companies are becoming more popular in overseas. The article offers two charts and two graphs that depict net purchases of U.S. bonds and stocks by foreign investors.

The article discusses the effects of the rise and fall of stock prices in any Asian market on global finances. It states that the 9% fall of the Shanghai Stock Exchange in Shanghai, China, was due to investors opting for safer options like the U.S. Treasury Bonds. Higher return is the reason stated for investors investing in emerging markets and corporate bonds. It reflects on the effects of a loss in the dollar against the yen, on the risk based investments of pension and hedge funds.

The article reports that selling of corporate bonds by Wall Street, New York City-based Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. and Bear Stearns Cos. Inc. helped them to increase earnings in the fourth quarter of 2006. Fixed income securities trading revenue for the same quarter rose by 25 percent at both the companies.

The article reports on Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc.'s move of hiring two senior bond executives from competitors Citigroup Inc. and Goldman Sachs & Co. in order to bolster its growing high-yield business.