European HY hits 'inflection point' after February flops

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European HY hits 'inflection point' after February flops

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Stock traders checks out a graph showing activity of US interest rates over one year in a business bank, in Paris, Monday, Dec. 12, 2011. Enthusiasm for riskier assets such as stocks and the euro faded Monday as investors worried that Europe's new pact aimed at fixing the continent's debt crisis would be insufficient. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) | Michel Euler/AP/Press Association Images

A shocking February in which two proposed deals failed to emerge seems to have killed off the European high yield market. It still has its champions, who insist brighter things are in store, but there are plenty who doubt whether a reopening is in sight, writes Max Bower.

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