Katharine Hidalgo

1 month ago | bloomberg.com | Katharine Hidalgo |Edward Clark

Investors are still flocking to the $1.6 trillion asset class, even as questions persist about the strength of its underlying assets.

Jan 17, 2025 | bloomberg.com | Eleanor Duncan |Abhinav Ramnarayan |Katharine Hidalgo

Puede que el equipo de Donald Trump haya estado barajando la idea de un aumento gradual de los aranceles a la importación en gran parte del mundo, pero los banqueros que financian a las empresas en su línea de fuego están, no obstante, en un frenesí. Ante la inminencia de la toma de posesión del presidente electo la próxima semana, algunas empresas europeas de sectores amenazados han acelerado sus planes de endeudamiento para adelantarse a cualquier medida punitiva.

Jan 17, 2025 | bnnbloomberg.ca | Eleanor Duncan |Abhinav Ramnarayan |Katharine Hidalgo

(Bloomberg) -- Donald Trump’s team may have been batting around the idea of a gradual ratcheting up of import tariffs on much of the world, but bankers who finance the companies in his firing line are in a frenzy nonetheless. As the president-elect’s inauguration looms next week, some European businesses in threatened industries have accelerated borrowing plans to get ahead of any punitive measures. Others are being grilled by lenders on how they’ll be impacted by as-yet undisclosed tariffs.

Jan 17, 2025 | financialpost.com | Eleanor Duncan |Abhinav Ramnarayan |Katharine Hidalgo

Sectors under scrutiny include auto parts, metals, medical supplies and energy infrastructure. But Trump’s unpredictability and taste for drama means no one really knows what to expect from the self-proclaimed “tariff man.” Such is the uncertainty that three people involved in loan-repricing deals in the European leveraged-finance market, who wanted to stay anonymous because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly, said they’d been racing to get them done before Trump takes power on Jan. 20.

Jan 17, 2025 | news.bloomberglaw.com | Eleanor Duncan |Abhinav Ramnarayan |Katharine Hidalgo

Donald Trump’s team may have been batting around the idea of a gradual ratcheting up of import tariffs on much of the world, but bankers who finance the companies in his firing line are in a frenzy nonetheless. As the president-elect’s inauguration looms next week, some European businesses in threatened industries have accelerated borrowing plans to get ahead of any punitive measures. Others are being grilled by lenders on how they’ll be impacted by as-yet undisclosed tariffs.