Die Rating-Agentur Moody's gab bekannt, dass 33 der von ihr bewerteten Unternehmen nicht in der Lage waren, ihre Schulden zu bezahlen. Gut die Hälfte davon war im März de facto zahlungsunfähig https://de.investing.com/news/economy/...n-und-hyperinflation-2393027 Corporate defaults jump with higher interest rates, slowing GDP growth and financial-stability risks Fifteen Moody’s-rated debt issuers defaulted in March, the highest monthly count since 2020. The global speculative-grade corporate default rate will end this year at 4.6% and hit 4.9% in Q1 2024. We expect distressed exchanges to remain elevated in the months ahead after DEs jumped to 72% of all corporate defaults in 2022 from nearly half in 2020. Many of these DEs will end up as re-defaults – underscoring how more out-of-court restructurings have failed or been undermined by the economic environment. https://www.moodys.com/creditfoundations/...Rating-Transitions-05E002 Global corporate defaults highest since the pandemic in 2020: More companies around the world defaulted on their debts in the first three months of this year than in any quarter since late 2020, when businesses were still hamstrung by restrictions to stop the spread of Covid. https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/18/business/...ghest-level/index.html
Withdrawals by exchanges and other clients deflates non-interest-bearing deposits: Metropolitan Commercial Bank’s rushed disentanglement from the crypto sector has come at the cost of a steep increase in funding costs, as erstwhile clients moved their operational deposits elsewhere. https://www.risk.net/risk-quantum/7956564/...-to-higher-funding-costs
Japan's Nomura Holdings Inc saw about $850 million wiped off its market value. Nomura's quest for global growth hits buffers again. Moody's has a negative outlook on Nomura Holdings' rating, "reflecting structural challenges to the company's profitability in the domestic retail segment," ratings agency Moody's Japan senior analyst Tomoya Suzuki wrote in a report. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/...6-profit-drop-2023-04-27/ Nomura shares drop more than 7% after quarterly profit tanks. Investors have grown more cautious about volatile markets as a banking crisis that began with the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank spread to Europe with the sale of Credit Suisse Group AG CSGN.S to its Swiss rival UBS Group AG UBSG.S. https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/...han-7-after-quarterly-profit-tanks
Die US-Wirtschaft ist im ersten Quartal langsamer gestiegen als erwartet wurde. Dem US-Handelsministerium zufolge wuchs die US-Wirtschaft nur um 1,1 Prozent statt der prognostizierten 2,0 Prozent.
Der Index der National Association of Realtors (NAR) für Vertragsunterzeichnungen zum Hauskauf fiel im März um 5,2 Prozent auf nur noch 78,9. Der Rückgang war schlimmer als alle Schätzungen in einer Bloomberg-Umfrage unter Ökonomen. https://www.nar.realtor/infographics/pending-home-sales-snapshot