This is When Bonds Go Kaboom!
This is When Bonds Go Kaboom!
by Wolf Richter September 27, 2015
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Its getting tougher out there for our QE and ZIRP-coddled corporate junk-bond heroes.
Unisys, whose revenues and profits decline year after year and whose stock dropped from over $400 a share during the prior tech bubble to $13 a share now, withdrew its offer to sell $350 million of bonds on Friday.
The current terms and conditions available in the market were not attractive for the company to move forward, it said. According to S&P Capital IQs LCD, the five-year senior secured notes due in 2020, rated BB/Ba2, had been guided at around 8%. But buyers were leery, and they demanded more yield. They wanted to be rewarded just a little more for the substantial risk they were taking. So the notes failed to price, and Unisys withdrew the offering.
Unisys isnt an oil company, or a mining company, or a coal company sectors that have been eviscerated by the commodities rout and are having trouble issuing any debt at all. Unisys is a tech company.
But Unisys wasnt the only one: It was the 15th bond offering withdrawn so far this year, according to LCD, though two of them Fortescue Metals and Presidio were able to pull them off later. In total, nearly $4 billion in bond offerings were withdrawn this year. ..................(more)
http://wolfstreet.com/2015/09/27/junk-bonds-distresses-debt-ratio-spiking-spreads/