This suggests the possibility of an arbitrage: borrow money at a rate comparable to the junk bond y…

A few years back, I spent about $2 billion buying several bond issues of Energy Future Holdings, an…

"It's a stable business with great cash flow... would de-lever pretty quickly," the analyst continu…

Sounds reasonable in 2007, but not in 2013. Many of those big club deals were losers, and almost al…

According to multiple reports, Silver Lake, a buyout firm will invest $1 billion or more; Microsoft…

...A bankruptcy would wipe out much of the $8.3 billion investment made by buyers including KKR, TP…

So let’s put this in context: What Silver Lake needs is for a majority of Dell shareholders not nam…

"The debt ceiling has been pushed back because there are other mechanisms that can be used by the R…

That kind of figure could require buyers to come up with at least $7 billion of equity, based on ot…

Most companies go private because they have an execution problem, and a buyout firm promises a solu…

Leverage is a strategy where a business, person, or investor uses debt to maximize the return of an…

An analysis of Refinitiv data found that 80% of SPACs that are still in search of a deal are now tr…

Junior gold miners are even more leveraged and volatile. These are smaller companies, with much mor…

"Leverage on the way up is a great thing. Leverage on the way down can rip your arms off," says for…

"If we assume that half of PE firms' available funds are invested, and that a typical leverage mult…

It suggests that investors are buying the boom in stock prices that have come about on greater trad…

"Bitcoin is the reserve currency of the crypto-asset ecosystem. It is the flight to safety currency…

"When crypto falls from trillions, or meme stocks fall from tens of billions, #MainStreet losses wi…

"There's no big guy who has gone to zero yet… that would be very healthy for the market," O'Leary t…

Robinhood allows the premium to be used as collateral, so now they give you the buying power of 400…