In
at least one important way, President Trump's decision to browbeat the
Fed into pausing its program of interest-rate hikes is paying off bigly
for America's most vulnerable corporate borrowers.
The Fed's decision to 'pause' interest rate hikes comes as nearly
one-third of the entire $1.2 trillion US high-yield market is slated for
maturity over the next four years. That's a record proportion,
according to a team of strategists at Barclays led by Bradley Rogoff,
and compares with a post-2000 average of just 20%. And after the
historic market 'freeze' late last year where not a single high-yield
bond was issued, corporate America has apparently got the message: Now
is the time to strike while the iron is hot. The more speculative-grade the rating, the more important it is for companies to act now to refinance that debt. $1.2Tにもなる米国高金利債権の1/3が今後4年で満期を迎えようとするなかで、FEDが金利引き上げを「中断」することを決めた。Bradley RogoffをリーダーとするBarclaysのストラテジストによると、この割合はとても大きなもので、比較として示すと、2000以降での平均満期割合はわずか20%にすぎなかった。そして昨年遅くに歴史的なこの市場の「凍結」が生じ、まったく高金利債権は発行されなかった、米国全体が明らかにこういうメッセージを発している:今こそ、鉄は熱いうちに打て、ということだ。周囲で投機的企業格付が増えるほどに、多くの企業にとってはいまいそいで債務の借り換えをすることがさらに大切になる。
Though many companies have years to plan on refinancing (almost none
will pay off their debt tabs entirely), many are choosing to refinance
now, while rates are low, and demand for higher-yielding debt is high.
Junk bonds tanked last week as markets shunned risky assets, but this
didn't dampen buyers' appetite: Last week was the biggest week for
issuance in nearly two years, with junk issuers selling $12 billion. So
far this year, more than $80 billion of bonds that listed refinancing in
the prospectus have been issued. That has accounted for more than 70%
of the issuance so far this year, according to Bloomberg.
And while credit analysts at some of the bigger fund managers insist
that this is 'healthy', they seem to have neglected the fact that the
president has effectively given corporations a green light to continue
on their debt binge by effectively putting off their day of reckoning
until the Democrats take back control of the White House.
"Companies are extending maturities out, and that’s healthy," said
Scott Roberts, head of high-yield debt at Invesco Ltd. Refinancing is a
better use of debt than buying back shares, he added. "I’ve seen frothy
before and this is not it."
"I feel good about this high-yield market and we are trying to push issuers to take advantage of it,"
said Richard Zogheb, global head of debt capital markets at Citigroup
Inc. "Investors are so excited now that the underlying rate environment
is more dovish, and that’s really good news for high-yield borrowers."
Companies that backed out of their issuance plans late last year
during the sudden market drought are beginning to realize that 'market
conditions' probably aren't going to get much better than they are now.
"We had half a dozen companies that were planning to go as early as
nine or 10 months ago, then the market started weakening and we never
got to the point where we could do those deals," said John Gregory, head
of leveraged-finance syndicate at Wells Fargo & Co., referring to
when junk bond prices fell late last year. "Now we’re finally getting to that point."
What's more, floating-rate leveraged loans have become less
attractive thanks to the Fed's capitulation, creating something of a
perfect storm for the junk-bond market, which is great for heavily
indebted companies hoping to lock in the lowest possible interest rate. 更に言うと、変動金利レバレッジドローンはそれほど魅力的にならなくなった、FEDが罠に陥ったためだ、これがジャンクボンド市場に何らかの嵐を引き起こしつつある、債務過多の企業にとって最低金利を得ることを期待している。
"I can’t remember when $5 billion worth of deals came in one day," said Matt Eagan, a portfolio manager at Loomis Sayles & Co.
"The market is generally wide open for issuers," said Jenny Lee,
co-head of leveraged loan and high-yield capital markets at JPMorgan
Chase & Co. "We’re advising issuer clients to look harder at doing
high-yield bonds."
Even if borrowers truly can't afford it, the longer they can delay
their day of reckoning, the greater the chance that the Fed takes care
of their obligations for them when the central bank inevitably pivots to
buying corporate debt - as former Fed Chairwoman Janet Yellen recently
suggested - during QE4.
Class 8 Heavy Truck Orders Crash 68% in January by Tyler Durden Wed, 02/06/2019 - 17:25 Among the latest dismal news about the strength of the US economy, on Tuesday ACT Research released preliminary truck orders for January 2019 which showed that Class 8 truck orders collapsed an astounding 68% for January. The decline is being attributed to a 300,000+ vehicle backlog potentially prompting fleets to halt purchases in the near term. 米国経済に関し最近憂鬱なニュースが多い中で、火曜にACT researchが2019年1月のトラック発注を開示した、1月にClass 8のトラック発注がなんと68%も急落した。この発注減は短期的に300,000台超の潜在在庫を生み出す。 Specifically, in January Class 8 net orders were 15,800 units (14,700 SA; 176,400 SAAR), down 68% YoY and down 26% MoM. Class 5- 7 January net orders were 23,400...
Amazonで買物をしてContrarianJを応援しよう "On The Precipice" by Tyler Durden Mon, 06/24/2019 - 14:30 Authored by Kevin Ludolph via Crescat Capital, Dear Investors: The US stock market is retesting its all-time highs at record valuations yet again. We strongly believe it is poised to fail. The problem for bullish late-cycle momentum investors trying to play a breakout to new highs here is the oncoming freight train of deteriorating macro-economic conditions. 米国株式は記録的バリエーションのもとで再度過去最高を試している。私どもはこれが失敗すると強く信じている。景気拡大終盤で強気のモメンタム投資家が新高値を試そうとしていることの問題は、マクロ経済条件の悪化にある。 US corporate profit growth, year-over-year, for the S&P 500 already fully evaporated in the first quarter of 2019 and is heading toward outright decline for the full year based on earnings estimate revision trends. Note the alligator jaws divergence in the chart be...
中国が債務増加していることはたしかです。ただ日本の例を日銀資金循環報告でみると家計、320兆円、民間非金融機関1,785兆円、一般政府 1,284兆円となります。合算すると3,300兆円にもなり、GDPの600%を超えています。 https://www.boj.or.jp/statistics/sj/sjexp.pdf この記事の統計と同じ考え方で数値を採用しているのかどうか気になります。 加えて、この資金循環報告に書かれている海外資産というのが内数なのか外数なのか?私にはよくわかりません。当然海外債務も結構な額になります。一度日銀資金循環 図表1を見てください。詳しい方に教えていただければ。 この中国のたどる道は昔のソ連とかMMTと同様で、自国通貨ならいくら発行しても倒産はしない、というか為政者が痛みに耐えることができず緩和を続けるというものです。でも最終的には限界点に達します。ソ連は建国から崩壊まで70年かかりました。 自由主義経済なら立ち行かなくなった企業は退場してもらうというのが減速なのですが、これがうまくゆかないわけです。 でも日本は中国のはるか先を言っているように見えます。ちょっと検索したのですが、日本の債務に関しては政府債務に言及したものばかりで、この記事のように民間、個人まで総合的に記載しているのは日銀の資金循環統計しか見つけることができませんでした。 China Continues To Pile Debt On Top Of More Debt Written by Jesse Colombo | Feb, 27, 2019 Like many countries, China attempted to rein in its debt growth over the past couple years, but ultimately gave up and is now back to piling on even more debt. Bloomberg reports – 多くの国と同様に、中国もここ2年ほど債務増加を抑えようとしてきた、しかし結局の所諦めてしまい、今や更に債務を積み上げている。ブルームバーグ記事ーー For almost two years,...
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