Covenants slacken as money piles into corporate debt
According to a report by asset manager BlackRock, global exchange traded products saw a consistent inflow into fixed income funds in the first eight months of 2018. Within fixed income products, investment grade corporate bonds saw equally consistent flows, while high yield corporate bonds saw two consecutive months of inflows after six months of outflows. The inflows extend to high yield markets too, which is doing nothing to aid the fight against looser covenants.
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