Insto magazine October November 2009

  • Corporate bond markets’ big revival
    Corporate bond markets’ big revival

    Shifts in the debt landscape and attitudes of lenders should ensure the debt capital markets get a long run on the catwalk. Jonathan Shapiro casts his eye over the passing parade.
     

    With a fair chunk of 2009 still to run, the booming global markets for corporate bonds have categorically smashed all records.

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