Bankruptcies Suddenly Soar Across Corporate America, Worst First Quarter Since 2009
Bankruptcies Suddenly Soar Across Corporate America, Worst First Quarter Since 2009
by Wolf Richter April 16, 2015
Come down to Houston, William Snyder, leader of the Deloitte Corporate Restructuring Group, told Reuters. Youll see there is just a stream of consultants and bankruptcy attorneys running around this town.
But its not just in Houston or in the oil patch. Its in retail, healthcare, mining, finance
. Bankruptcies are suddenly booming, after years of drought.
In the first quarter, 26 publicly traded corporations filed for bankruptcy, up from 11 at the same time last year, Reuters reported. Six of these companies listed assets of over $1 billion, the most since Financial-Crisis year 2009. In total, they listed $34 billion in assets, the second highest for a first quarter since before the financial crisis, behind only the record $102 billion in 2009.
The largest bankruptcy was the casino operating company of Caesars Entertainment that has been unprofitable for five years. Its among the zombies of Corporate America, kept moving with new money from investors that had been driven to near insanity by the Feds six-plus years of interest rate repression. ...............(more)
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