Donald Trump to the rescue?

The $8.55 trillion U.S. corporate bond market has bucked concerns over mounting company indebtedness and so far resisted fears about the knock-on effects of the potential unraveling of the 35-year-old bull run in government debt.

Now analysts at Barclays Plc are giving fixed-income investors fresh reason to be constructive on U.S. corporate bonds in the medium- to long-term. They predict the incoming Republican administration's far-reaching tax reforms may give the market a new lease on life by curbing the post-financial-crisis jump in leverage for industrial issuers and buoying returns for bondholders over the next decade.

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