News reached us last week of the demise of the Choco Taco. Or maybe not. Cousin to the Klondike Bar, this chocolate-nut-waffle-taco-vanilla-fudge-ice-cream novelty seemed to be yet another victim of supply-chain issues… ▶︎ Read Aug 1 2022 newsletter: here ▶︎ Chart of the Week: here (by U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysisrence Board, Bloomberg) (Any “forward-looking” […]
Midyear grading Download PitchBook’s Report here. Every December, PitchBook makes a slew of predictions about industry trends in the upcoming year. That’s been a tricky gambit since 2019. In successive years, the industry has navigated a global pandemic, a skyscraper of a recovery, and a slowdown driven by unavoidable macro trends. Last December, the prevailing mood…
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Leveraged loan and high yield bond secondary prices move up from recent lows Source: Debtwire Par, Markit, ICE BofA US HY Index To open the year, loans were bid at an average price of 97.78, with approximately 20% of loans bid in the par-plus range. As inflation numbers started coming in hot, and as the…
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Private debt fundraising in North America on track for record The number of private debt funds in North America has yet to reach pandemic or pre-pandemic levels, but the trend of mega funds continues. In 2022 year to date, 55 private debt funds closed in North America. Even if that number doubles in the next…
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Our characterization of the current economic picture as a “precession” took into account the second quarter’s negative GDP data. But last week’s “blowout” labor report for July – 528,000 jobs added – combined with unemployment edging down to 3.5%, hardly depict the prelude to a recession. The number of jobs now stands where it did…