While the stock market is rallying, the credit markets are still working on the assumption of absolute disaster. Where is such a dire forecast coming from?
Deutsche Banks published a study that shows the gloomy reality that the credit markets are predicting. They used the iBoxx index of investment grade corporate bonds and found that default rates in Europe are priced at 38%, in the US at 40% and at 51% in the UK. All of these readings are worse than in the Depression.
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