Loans à la Mode
Following our story last week on skyrocketing costs of natural vanilla flavoring, fans of confectionary innovation alerted us to another development on the sweets front.
A Swiss company is launching “ruby chocolate” to appeal to millennial appetites as well as to open foreign markets less known for chocoholics. While not available to consumers until 2018, the reddish varietal is reported to be a “tension between berry-fruitiness and luscious smoothness.” It also apparently has no added berries or fruit.
We’ll leave it to future readers to pass judgement on this new treat. In the meantime we’re relegated to passing along bittersweet news from the leveraged loan front.
With less than two weeks to go before the end of the third quarter, loan activity in the broader markets has continued to favor issuers. S&P LCD reports that...
QUOTE OF THE WEEK
“The market continues to hit all-time highs, yet there are a myriad of excuses for it to sell off.”
– Michael Scanlon, managing director, Manulife Asset Management.
Pricing on almost 100% of US leveraged loans was flexed in favor of the issuer during July and August.
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