While we'd love to join the crowd and call bear-market-over -- and it's certainly not all doom and gloom in the data right here -- we think investors are just a bit too sanguine given underlying trends.
Case in point:
Distress Pile Hits New Multiyear High
By Jeremy Hill
(Bloomberg) --The pile of distressed debt grew by about $16.7 billion last week while US courts closed out their busiest first quarter since 2009, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
- The heap of dollar-denominated corporate bonds and loans in the Americas trading at distressed levels rose to $305.3 billion in the week ended Friday, a roughly 5.8% jump from $288.6 billion a week earlier, Bloomberg-compiled data show
- The growth means the pile of distressed debt is larger than it has been at any time since Aug. 21 of 2020
- Meanwhile, bankruptcy filings from the likes of Catalina Marketing Corp. and Lincoln Power LLC brought the tally of new, large insolvencies to 57 for the first three months of the year
- That marks the busiest first quarter for US bankruptcy courts since 2009, which saw 103 filings during the period, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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