Higher-for-longer is squeezing the weakest credits first, Apollo notes
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The Federal Reserve’s “higher for longer” stance is not landing evenly across corporate credit.
Apollo's chief economist Torsten Slok argues the pressure is concentrated at the bottom of the ratings stack: CCC borrowers, many of them from the 2021–22 cheap-money vintage, are now
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