Bond buyers are trading out of the riskiest of junk bonds in favor of higher-rated securities as a rise in U.S. bankruptcies has raised concerns over the survival of highly-leveraged businesses during a prolonged period of high interest rates.
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U.S. BUSINESSES FAILING AT FASTEST RATE SINCE GREAT RECESSION
Each week in The Trends Journal we report on businesses going out of business. And we had forecast that by the numbers, a bad situation would become much worse. Confirming
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
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HIGH INTEREST RATES CONTINUE TO HOBBLE THE U.S. ECONOMY
Home sales and capital goods orders both declined in May due to lingering inflation and high interest rates, Bloomberg reported. Capital goods shipments dropped by 0.5 percent, the sharpest dip in three months.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
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TOP TREND 2024, BANKS GO BUST: MORE BANK FAILURES AHEAD
It is old news for Trends Journal subscribers, but it is just making the “news” now. More U.S. regional banks are due to fail because of their “very high” concentration of teetering commercial real estate loans...
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
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WHEN THE ECONOMY FALLS JOBS GO WITH IT
It’s global. The numbers are there for all to see. From developed to underdeveloped nations, economies are slowing down and/or contracting.
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HAPPY DAYS NOT HERE AGAIN. GDP REVISED DOWN
The U.S. GDP grew 1.3 percent in this year’s first quarter, not the 1.6 percent in an earlier flash estimate, the Commerce Department said last week. It is the lowest growth rate since the second quarter of 2022.