• FINRA TRACE · 26 August 2026 · Source: FINRA Key Data — 26 August 2026 • US 10-year Treasury yield: 4.66% on August 26, 2026 (up 0.02 percentage points from prior session)• US 30-year Treasury yield: 5.18% on August 26, 2026• US 2-year Treasury yield: 4.23% on August 26, 2026 (up 0.04 percentage points)• Bloomberg…

  • Data as of 27 August 2026 · Source: iShares LQD and HYG ETF holdings (BlackRock) · Updated daily The dominance of financial institutions among the largest corporate bond issuers underscores the sector’s enduring appetite for debt capital, with JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley collectively accounting for approximately £2.5 billion in outstanding market value…

  • FINRA TRACE · 22 August 2026 · Source: FINRA Key Data — 22 August 2026 **– YTD 2026 corporate bond trading: $68.1 billion average daily volume (through July), +14.4% year-over-year– YTD 2026 issuance: $1,681.0 billion (through July), +26.9% year-over-year– Outstanding corporate bonds: $11.7 trillion (as of Q1 2026), +3.0% year-over-year– August high-grade debt supply reached…

  • Data as of 23 August 2026 · Source: iShares LQD and HYG ETF holdings (BlackRock) · Updated daily The dominance of financial institutions among the largest corporate bond issuers underscores the sector’s structural reliance on debt capital markets for funding. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley occupy the top three positions, collectively accounting for…

  • The dramatic expansion of stock market participation among American households over the past four decades may have weakened the ability of interest rate changes to influence economic output, according to research published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Juan M. Morelli, a research economist at the New York Fed, found that the response…

  • The US Treasury Department will at least double the maximum size of its liquidity support buyback operations for longer-dated nominal coupon securities, effective September 9, 2026. The cap per operation will rise from $2bn to at least $4bn, covering securities in both the 10-year to 20-year sector and the 20-year to 30-year sector. The increased…

  • Fitch Ratings has recorded a US private credit default rate of 6.1% for the twelve months to end-July 2026, edging up from 6.0% in June and remaining at a record high for the fourth consecutive month. The ratings agency, which tracks approximately 1,500 US private credit issuers, said the slight increase was largely driven by…

  • FINRA TRACE · 16 August 2026 · Source: FINRA Key Data — 16 August 2026 **– US corporate bond trading (YTD through July 2026): $68.1 billion ADV, +14.4% Y/Y– US corporate bond issuance (YTD through July 2026): $1,681.0 billion, +26.9% Y/Y– US corporate bonds outstanding (Q1 2026): $11.7 trillion, +3.0% Y/Y– Gross IG supply Q2…

  • Data as of 17 August 2026 · Source: iShares LQD and HYG ETF holdings (BlackRock) · Updated daily The dominance of financial institutions among the largest corporate bond issuers underscores the sector’s structural reliance on debt capital markets for funding. JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and Wells Fargo collectively account for…

  • Exegy, the market data technology firm, will distribute the EuroCTP real-time consolidated tape through its Axiom market data service and Ticker Plant appliances when the European tape goes live on September 14, 2026. EuroCTP is the European Union’s first real-time pre- and post-trade consolidated tape for shares and exchange-traded funds. Its multicast FIX SBE feed…