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Corporate Credit Tremors in Aftershock of Tariff-Led Stock Rout

The tariff shock and recession fears that have sent world stocks into a tailspin over the last week are rolling into corporate funding markets, raising the cost of borrowing and disrupting financing plans even for lower-risk companies. With U.S. Treasuries …

Insurers’ $158 Billion CLO Bet Is Putting the Industry at Risk

They’ve been billed as a solution to the rock-bottom interest rates weighing down the returns of America’s asset managers. Collateralized loan obligations — which package and sell leveraged loans into chunks of varying risk and return — promise safety and …

Best Cites ‘Capital Challenge’ as Reinsurance Capacity Affects Market

Citing figures from a Swiss Re sigma study, A.M. Best has indicated that “despite a subpar operating climate, global reinsurers have managed to squeeze out relatively reasonable returns on capital and compensate investors while sustaining organic growth in capacity. Quite …