Record Japan Corporate Bond May Spark Growth in Sleepy Market.

(Bloomberg) -- A Japanese company is set to sell the nation's biggest-ever corporate bond this week, but it's still small compared with mega deals abroad, a reflection of the relatively sleepy local credit market. NTT's jumbo bond is taking place in a corporate bond market that's relatively small considering the size of Japan's economy, a legacy of local companies' preference for bank loans in the past. [Extracted from the article]