Investments

Regulators saved lenders from a proliferation of banking issues in response to Silicon Valley Bank's collapse—and cemented the virtues of the borrow-lend strategy of CLOs.

The U.S. 30-year yield rose to the highest level since November, joining the rest of the Treasury market in offering a return of at least 4% after labor-market data.

The government-sponsored enterprises will likely have their mainstay bonds exempted from the potential securitization-related rule, but their credit-risk transfers could be subject to it, some experts say.

Traders in the hyper-liquid world of ETFs ditched equities and corporate bonds and headed for the safety of government debt as yields broke out anew.

The bond market faces a bigger threat than recent rate hikes: the notion that rates will stay elevated even after the U.S. central bank's inflation fight is all over.

Investors offloaded $12.6 billion of Treasuries last year, but that figure was dwarfed by a record $121.8 billion purchase of U.S. agency debt, higher-yielding securities.

The move to shutter the lines of credit for future collateralized loan obligations — so-called warehouses — comes as BirchLane winds down and returns cash to its investors.

Lenders and borrowers have just a few months to negotiate how they're going to ditch the disgraced Libor benchmark in the leveraged loan market, and time is of the essence.

Martin Silver, 65, pleaded guilty in April, admitting that he conspired to defraud investors by overvaluing distressed loans and creating bogus documents and fake loans to hide losses.

Healthcare companies used to be some of the safest to lend to during economic downturns, until private equity firms bought them out and larded them with debt.