India settles ₹1,025 crore corporate bonds in SEBI Demat 2.0 pilot using blockchain and RBI wholesale CBDC across REC, L&T and IIFL Finance.

According to @StockMKTNewz, Google (GOOGL) has sold an additional $11 billion worth of debt in Europe, bringing its total debt issuance to $31 billion. This move highlights Google's strategy to leverage the low-cost capital markets in Europe, potentially to fund expansion, acquisitions, or other strategic initiatives. Investors may want to monitor how this additional debt influences Google's financial performance and market valuation.

According to @KobeissiLetter, 14.5% of US technology sector loans are now distressed, the highest share since the 2022 bear market. According to @KobeissiLetter, the tech bond distressed ratio has reached 9.5%, the highest since Q4 2023. According to @KobeissiLetter, these readings indicate rising stress across tech loans and bonds, highlighting elevated credit risk in the sector.

According to @KobeissiLetter, US investment grade corporate bond issuance rose 12 percent year over year in January to USD 208.4 billion, the highest January on record, with only March, April, and May 2020 and March 2022 seeing higher monthly volumes (source: @KobeissiLetter).

According to @StockMKTNewz, citing Bloomberg, US investment-grade corporate bond issuance has surpassed $200 billion, setting a new January record and marking only the sixth month ever above that threshold. Bloomberg’s tally, shared by @StockMKTNewz, underscores an exceptionally strong primary calendar that frames trading decisions in US investment-grade credit and related ETFs such as LQD.

According to Lex Sokolin, traders are buying credit default swap protection on Oracle, and the cost of that default insurance jumped rapidly, indicating a sharp widening of Oracle’s credit spreads (source: Lex Sokolin). According to Lex Sokolin, credit spreads are acting as a real-time seismograph of AI risk, making spread moves a direct gauge for AI-related risk across markets (source: Lex Sokolin). According to Lex Sokolin, this places Oracle’s CDS as a tradable risk signal that cross-asset participants, including crypto traders, can monitor when AI risk is in focus (source: Lex Sokolin).

According to @StockMKTNewz, former President Donald Trump purchased at least $82 million in corporate and municipal bonds between late August and early October, highlighting sizable allocation into U.S. fixed income markets; source: Reuters via @StockMKTNewz. The report specifies the instruments as corporate and municipal bonds and quantifies the purchases at a minimum of $82 million during that period, providing concrete data points for credit-market tracking; source: Reuters via @StockMKTNewz.