Borrowers sweeten pricing as headline risk mounts

摘要

Borrowers tapping the broadly syndicated US leveraged loan market to fund their operations are peddling juicier spreads to attract investors wary of negative headline news. Market volatility, impacted by worries about global growth and rhetoric over the US-China trade war, is giving investors the jitters as they seek to put money to work in an overheated space starved of new opportunities.