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Wednesday's announcement will likely also see debt managers hoist regular auction sizes for securities across the yield curve — with potential exceptions or smaller bumps for notes less in demand.

Economic data keeps defying bearish predictions — everything from gross domestic product to consumer confidence and hiring has beaten forecasts.

Hilton Grand Vacation is allowed to optionally repurchase defaulted or 90-day delinquent timeshare loans, which increases the transaction's recovery rates and reduces losses in the securities.

Classes A, B, C, D and E are expected to have credit support of 64.4%, 57.6%, 46.4%, 37.7% and 33.1%, respectively. Those support levels include hard credit enhancement and a haircut to excess spread.

So far, the wager appears to be profitable. The private equity pair agreed to purchase their shares at $12.30 each, and the stock rally after the deal was announced means they are sitting on a paper profit of more than $90 million.

With 24 sponsors, the collateral pool comprises mostly full-term interest-only loans, 97.4%. Otherwise, amortizing balloons make up the next highest percentage of loans, at 2.6%.

AGCO Finance is the originator of the assets backing the transaction, and Barclays Capital is the lead underwriter.

BofA's first auto loan securitization since 2012 will be backed by a pool of new and used automobile and light truck loans originated by the bank.

Executives at both companies warned that softening car prices will likely fall further as inventory grows, a welcome sign for inflation-weary buyers but worrisome for dealers facing new pressure on profit margins.

The companies are both tapping the U.S. investment-grade primary market, kicking off a potential deluge of fresh bank bonds in the wake of second-quarter earnings.