KKR Losses Show Failure to Close Loan Gap Raising Bankruptcies

Now, as an economic slowdown drags into the 16th month, borrowers unable to pay their debts are causing record losses for CLOs. Moody’s Investors Service put 760 of the funds, holding about $440 billion of assets, on review for downgrades on March 4. Unless policymakers decide to earmark some of the $11.6 trillion of government programs created to combat the seizure in credit markets to support high-yield loans, defaults may soar through 2012, according ... Full Story »

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Patricia L'Herrou
3.8
by Patricia L'Herrou - Mar. 14, 2009

the story implies that a certain amount of the problematic loans in the financial system are not from mortgages, and instead are very large business loans which we, the public, don't hear much about. i wish it had been written to be more easily deciphered by a non-finance reader, and i wish there had been knowledgeable sources from the gov't to comment on this.

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