Tag: junk bonds

• Friday, December 5th 2014 - 06:50 UTC

  Could falling oil prices spark a financial crisis?

  

  The oil and gas boom in the United States was made possible by the extensive credit afforded to drillers. Not only has financing come from company shareholders and traditional banks, but hundreds of billions of dollars have also come from junk-bond investors looking for high returns.

• Monday, June 2nd 2014 - 07:33 UTC

  Argentina confident US Supreme Court will take its litigation case with hedge funds

  

  President Cristina Fernandez administration has high hopes that the US Supreme Court will take its long running litigation case with holdout hedge funds that refused to accept sovereign debt rescheduling after Argentine defaulted in 2001.