Investments

It comes as investors begin to reshuffle their portfolios at the mid-year mark, while traders earlier this week embraced bets on 3 percentage points of cuts over the next nine months.

Traders are now betting that may be enough for the Federal Reserve to start cutting interest rates as soon as September.

The Honolulu bank is raising $165 million through depositary shares, a move that two observers said would help boost its below-average leverage ratio.

The anticipated losses follow a hit to investors in a U.S. CMBS last month. Buyers of the AAA portion of a note backed by the mortgage on a building in midtown Manhattan got less than three-quarters of their original investment back after the loan was sold at a steep discount.

The move was led by the two-year yield, which at one point fell nearly 8 basis points below 4.69% — short of last week's low 4.65%.

KKR is buying CCC loans as they are "purged" from fund managers with less risk appetite. Since so much demand has been sucked out of the market, Sheldon and Reback said they believe some parts of the CCC markets are "oversold."

The $39 billion 10-year note sale was awarded at 4.438%, compared with a yield of 4.458% in pre-auction trading at 1 p.m. New York time, the bidding deadline.

Much of that growth appears to have happened since the beginning of the year. JAAA's AUM was $5.3 billion at the end of 2023, suggesting a 94% increase.

Treasury yields surged across the curve on Friday, while traders — as well as economists at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. — pushed out their expectations for the Fed's first rate reduction.

As the inflation reduction campaign has miles to go, banks considering credit risk transfers referencing commercial real estate could find enthusiastic investors.