Recent bankruptcy filings by Residential Capital and Hawker Beechcraft have added $3.4 billion to the April year-to-date default tally of $5.8 billion, according to Fitch Ratings. As such, Fitch projects that the U.S. high yield default rate will top 2% in May, representing the highest level since October 2010. The pace of defaults is running ahead of early 2011 activity.
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Monica Insoll, Managing Director of Fitch's Credit Market Research team, discusses the findings of the agency's most recent European senior fixed-income investor survey.
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Fitch Solutions has expanded its CDS Pricing Service to now include single name CDS derived bid-offer spreads and CDS benchmark curves that show average CDS values by rating level, industry sector and region.
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Richard Hunter, Head of EMEA and AsiaPac Corporates, explains the results of Fitch's eurozone corporates shock case.
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Fitch Solutions introduces a comprehensive suite of credit risk indicators to monitor your exposure to bank credit and counterparty risk.
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