It’s hard to follow the news without encountering scary-sounding reports about inflation. They’re often based on broad inflation measures like the consumer price index, which has risen 5% or more year over year for six consecutive months since May, the longest such streak since the early 1990s. The implication, if not the explicit message, is that the cost of everything ...

The credit markets are no place for discerning investors these days. US junk bond and leveraged loan sales have surpassed $1 trillion in 2021, an unprecedented amount for a calendar year. Loan funds have experienced inflows during all but two weeks this year, bringing the S&P/LSTA Leveraged Loan Price Index close to an all-time high, and year-to-date issuance of collateralised-loan ...

Bloomberg Ryanair Holdings Plc Chief Executive Officer Michael O’Leary said steps aimed at containing spiraling coronavirus infection rates in Europe are putting the region’s travel rebound at risk. Measures including a return to lockdown conditions in Austria mean airlines face a “fraught” period through Christmas as they wait to see whether a resurgence in demand will be strangled off, O’Leary ...