Aegon Is Worried About Junk-Debt Blowups

TCW’s $160 billion fixed-income group has slashed credit risk to the lowest in three decades amid valuation and contagion concerns. “Look back over the last 30 years — you would not find a period where we had less exposure to both investment-grade and high-yield bonds as we do to ...  Show more

Blackstone is looking to more than double its $40 billion systematic credit business, which uses models to crunch data and build portfolios. “This can and should be a $100 billion business if you look at us compared to other large traditional discretionary fixed-income managers,” ...  Show more

The big headlines from March's banking crisis have receded and balances at some of the Federal Reserve's emergency lending facilities, like the discount window, are starting to fall. But if you look closely, there are still signs of strain in the depths of the financial system. A ...  Show more

The Vice-Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway sees trouble ahead for the U.S. financial system because American banks are "full of bad loans" due to falling property prices.Today's Stocks & Topics: Job Openings Report, Banks Still a Problem, Working Skills, TWLO - Twilio Inc. Cl A, AA ...  Show more

These recent bankruptcies have garnered close attention from the marketplace because they represent the very real possibility serious cracks have already weakened credit markets...to the point even the stock market (part of it, anyway) is taking a hard look. Ally, Bread Financial ...  Show more

On today’s show we are looking at a headline article in the WSJ. 

The topic is banking. Think about it. Every bank’s risk management department would have stress tested the existing loan portfolio. They would have looked at the maturity dates of each loan, and forecast ...