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China set for record defaults, and downgrades tip more pain

Strains are set to get worse if the trends of credit-rating companies are anything to go by-agencies including Dagong Global Rating. have been downgrading firms by an unprecedented margin

China, Xi Jinping
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Illustration by Binay Sinha

Bloomberg Beijing
China is zooming to a record year of corporate—bond defaults, with the 2018 total already more than three-quarters of the previous high even before an expected economic slowdown bites.
 
Chinese companies have reneged on about 16.5 bn yuan ($2.5 billion) of public bond payments so far this year, compared with the high of 20.7 billion yuan seen in all of 2016, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Strains are set to get worse if the trends of credit-rating companies are anything to go by—agencies including Dagong Global Rating. have been downgrading firms by an unprecedented margin.
 
“Corporate profits have worsened

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