Loan Market

LONDON (Reuters) - World stocks fell and measures of investor risk aversion surged on Thursday on signs the U.S. central bank may soon start scaling back the support measures that have been driving global assets higher. Unexpected weakness in China's...

By Rachna Uppal and Mala Pancholia DUBAI, May 22 (Reuters) - The lure of sub-saharan Africa, with its geographic proximity and promise of higher returns, is tempting cash-rich Gulf Arab bond investors to look south, a marked departure from the relative...

LONDON (Reuters) - The European leveraged loan market has suffered from diminishing deal flow as financings opt to go to the US or high-yield bond markets, calling into question the significance and relevance of European syndicate desks and their...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Massive demand from investors has pushed yields on U.S. leveraged loans to 2004 levels and aggressive market conditions continue to strip protection from new deals, including removing Libor floors that guarantee minimum yields for...

* S&P 500 index hits record intraday, closing highs * Fall in euro zone inflation adds to ECB rate cut case * Apple announces largest non-bank bond deal in history, shares rise By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar...

* U.S. Midwest business activity contracts in April; US dollar falls * Fall in euro zone inflation adds to ECB rate cut case * Apple announces largest non-bank bond deal in history By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK, April 30 (Reuters) - Stocks on...

* Private equity firms load companies with more debt * High-risk form of debt returns * Buyout houses say need to return capital to clients By Tommy Wilkes LONDON, April 24 (Reuters) - Private equity groups are paying themselves and their investors by...

Maybe federal regulators studying ways to make college loans more affordable can learn a few things from the experts on the front lines -- borrowers who are piling up the debt. That's the goal of the federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which...

The student-loan market is not in a bubble and going into debt to pay for college is still worth it, according to a new report. But those are the rare bits of good news in the otherwise dispiriting report on students’ escalating college debt....

When someone pitches me a special limited-time offer for things like magazine subscriptions, miracle diet pills or muscle-layering workout gear, I tend to press my consumer anxiety button. That's because these "bargains" can be expensive and impulsive...

Jeremy Thomas is a freshman at Wichita State University.  But he's well aware of the 16-thousand-dollar debt waiting for him after graduation.  We asked him if his student debt scared him. "A little because I know I will have to start paying it back...

One message from financial markets has become quite clear: attempts by the euro zone to ring-fence Greece and stop contagion to other, more significant economies has failed. The job now in Berlin, Brussels and Paris is not to worry about Greece, which is...