- US investment-grade bond issuance topped $1 trillion on Tuesday as the corporate-credit market rebounds from March lows.
- High-grade issuance on Tuesday reached $11.2 billion across 11 deals, $4 strategists said in a note.
- Year-to-date bond offerings trounce last year's pace, as companies issued roughly $1.14 trillion in investment-grade
debt throughout 2019, according to the $4. - The issuance frenzy comes after the Federal Reserve's historic move into corporate-debt purchases drove investors back into risk
markets . - $4.
US investment-grade companies have issued more than $1 trillion in debt in the year-to-date, offering bonds at a voracious pace as the coronavirus pandemic lifts cash demand.
High-grade issuance on Tuesday reached $11.2 billion across 11 deals, $4 strategists said in a note. The single-day sum brings the year's total to $1.003 trillion. Nearly $200 billion in debt has been issued in May so far as companies capitalize on growing risk-on attitudes.
The bond frenzy is far more intense than in the year-ago period. Investment-grade firms offered $1.14 trillion in investment grade debt through all of 2019, according to the $4.
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The corporate bond market has enjoyed a sharp recovery from initial coronavirus-fueled lows following unprecedented Federal Reserve intervention. The central bank announced on March 23 it would issue debt to large companies through direct bond purchases and by taking in corporate-credit exchange-traded funds. The announcement buoyed the tumbling sector and the stock market through April and into May.
The monetary policy announcement also boosted inflows to investment-grade bond funds and ETFs over recent weeks. March saw record amounts of cash pulled from the
The Fed's ETF purchases $4. The monetary authority's program for direct bond purchases $4, chair Jerome Powell said during Tuesday Senate testimony.
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