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US leveraged-loan lovefest will end in heartbreak

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Moody’s Investors Service published an in-depth look at US leveraged loans. And it seems the more the analysts dug in, the more alarmed they became. Yes, the nearly $1.4 trillion market can take comfort in a low 3.4 percent default rate that Moody’s projects will only get lower, most likely dropping to 2.2 percent over the next year. But that’s ...

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Two-cent fares killing airlines in India market

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Bloomberg Global carriers have flocked to India, lured by a domestic travel boom and what’s expected to be the world’s third-biggest aviation market by 2025. Yet India has proven an intensely competitive market, where profits are scarce and the life expectancy of weaker airlines is anything but certain. Jet Airways India Ltd., one of the first carriers to launch after ...

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Toys ‘R’ Us sale of Asia unit caught in ‘feud’

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Bloomberg The sale of Toys ‘R’ Us’s last and most valuable remaining asset, its Asia operations, has become caught up in a battle between two groups of hedge funds over the future use of the brand by stores in that region. One group of funds, including Cerberus Capital Management and Cyrus Capital Partners, owns notes issued by the Asian stores ...

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