More companies are borrowing as demand for corporate bonds increases.
Bond traders at some of the world’s largest banks have more than $50 billion riding on the success of the exchange-traded fund market.
DirectBooks will initially focus on U.S. dollar-denominated investment-grade corporate bond offerings.
A few days of losses undoes months of progress, and the S&P 500 gets beached at an all-too-familiar level.
Blue-chip companies have ramped up borrowing and liabilities have reached their highest level since 2009.
New junk bonds and IPOs have observers worried that the market's trying to have a last hurrah at investors' expense.
Nearly a third of the $1.2 trillion U.S. high-yield market matures in the next four years.
Companies want to tap the bond market for acquisitions, but a deluge of issues might scare off investors.
Netflix has amassed $10 billion of long-term debt to continually invest in content, development.
Demand for U.S. corporate bonds has surged after the Fed signaled that it’s done raising interest rates for now.