S&P predicts junk grade firms’ defaults will keep rising

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S&P predicts junk grade firms’ defaults will keep rising

The European corporate speculative grade default rate rose to 5.3% at the end of the second quarter, from 4.7% at the end of the first, Standard & Poor’s said this week.

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