The country is awaiting updates from the White House and Congress on news of the debt ceiling, and with a potential default possible, exchange-traded funds, or ETFs, could be an investment choice to ...

Credit spreads stay tight as risk-on persists. BBB-heavy IG ETFs and equity-like bond ETF risk raise downside.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac exhibit contrasting risk trajectories, while purchase loans dominate in a high-interest rate environment. Milliman Inc., a mortgage consulting and analytics firm, found that ...

Default risk for most US public companies decreased in Q3 2024, with median default scores dropping in 7 of 11 market sectors. Healthcare, utilities, real estate, and financials sectors showed stable ...

The risk of default in the commercial real estate market is growing as office and retail property valuations could drop by as much as 40% while nearly $1.5 trillion in debt is due for repayment by the ...

New York Community Bank is working hard to right its ship, but the 2019 rent law is relentless. The Long Island-based lender, saved from the brink of collapse in March, reported a 990 percent surge in ...

As the U.S. inches closer to the June 1 deadline to avoid defaulting on our $31.4 trillion national debt, ratings agencies have already begun hinting at downgrading the nation’s credit — a move that ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Credit Benchmark, the provider of global credit consensus ratings and analytics, today said that the already low 1% default rate among US oil & gas companies is likely to ...

The U.S. economy is looking resilient based on recent data, but cracks are starting to show for certain companies – and that could be bad news for investors chasing yield. Earlier this week, the ...

SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Milliman, Inc., a premier global consulting and actuarial firm, today announced the third quarter (Q3) 2024 results of the Milliman Mortgage Default Index (MMDI), which shows ...

M&T Bank socked away more funds last quarter to cover expected losses on commercial real estate loans — a response to the one-two punch of falling property values and higher interest rates. The bank, ...

For decades, investors thought the risk of the US government defaulting on its debt was essentially zero. It was nice while it lasted. There’s still a low chance the US government will fail to pay ...