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BAML Advises Corporations To Float Debt This Summer, While Opportunity Lasts

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Mark Melin
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In a situation room report, Bank of America Merrill Lynch asks if corporations “Got plans for the summer?” If not, they advise floating debt offering before this historic ship sails.

Rate Hikes Float Debt

As Fed Governor Jerome Powell ponders two rate hikes in 2015, BAML says float debt now

The report, authored by Hans Mikkelsen, noted the much discussed Wall Street Journal event yesterday where Fed Governor Jerome Powell discussed his baseline option that the Fed will hike rates in September – echoing a view held by BAML and many other notable financial services players, as noted in ValueWalk.

However, Powell goes off this reservation when...

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Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.