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Leveraged loans are delivering the smallest returns at the start of a year since 2008 as the Federal Reserve and other regulators warn that the $561 billion market may have become too frothy.
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H.J. Heinz Co., the ketchup maker being acquired by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital Inc., canceled plans to distribute $2 billion of the $12 billion in loans backing the purchase in euros and pounds, according to a person with knowledge of the transaction.
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H.J. Heinz Co. gave guidance on the rate it will pay on $12 billion of loans to support the ketchup maker’s $23 billion buyout by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital Inc. NBTY Inc. is seeking to reduce borrowing costs on a loan after a failed attempt to refinance the debt last month.
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Price swings in junk bonds are widening, diverging from stocks that are the least volatile in more than five years as concern mounts that the eight-month rally in the debt is coming to an end.
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PetroQuest Energy Inc. , an oil and gas explorer operating on the U.S. Gulf Coast, plans to sell debt as Federal Reserve policy makers said the economic recovery may slow.
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High-yield bonds may be a good substitute for equities in 2011 as economic growth accelerates, according to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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A Federal Reserve governor is joining those warning that junk-debt investors are poised for losses, while his institution’s policies spur them to keep buying the debt.
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Junk-bond yields have fallen so far that the world’s biggest debt investors are turning to borrowed money to juice returns, a practice that magnified losses during the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
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Air Medical Group Holdings Inc., the provider of emergency air transportation services, is marketing debt as sales of speculative-grade bonds to fund acquisitions triple from year-ago levels as a percentage of overall volume.
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Investors should buy BB and B rated U.S. corporate bonds amid lower inflation and interest rates and slowing economic growth, JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts said.
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