Apparently investors have gotten bored with worrying about insolvent companies. They are back to bidding bad debt up again, according to new JP Morgan data:
Distressed debt – defined as bonds trading at less than 50 cents on the dollar – is rapidly disappearing from US financial markets as yield-hungry investors push up the prices for even the most beaten-down securities.
Bonds trading at less than 50 cents on the dollar now account for only 1.1 per cent of the high-yield market, or $8.9bn in securities, down from 27.5 per cent, or $202bn in bonds, a year ago, according to JPMorgan data.
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