Corporate Borrowing & Debt

Companies have forsaken the debt diets they claimed at the beginning of the year; now 40% of blue-chip companies have leverage ratios more consistent with junk status.

WW International wins the Silver Alexander Hamilton Award in Liquidity Management—congratulations!

Buyback covers dollar- and euro-denominated debt; offer expires in early October.

49 deals in 30 hours: Companies across credit grades are refinancing their debt because of historically low yields.

Record-low 30-year Treasury rates make borrowing attractive, even to a company sitting on a $200 billion stockpile of cash.

Whole-business securitized bonds enable lower-grade companies to borrow at investment-grade rates.