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She previously worked as a Bureau Chief at the Wall Street Journal and led its corporate finance vertical.
Nina relocated to the U.S. in 2019 after three years with the WSJ in London. Prior to her time with the Wall Street Journal, she worked as a U.K. Business and Finance Correspondent for German media group Welt in London and as a reporter in Shanghai.
Latest Stories
S&P Global Expects to Rate More Private Credit as Debt Concerns Rise
S&P Global expects to generate more revenue from rating private debt financings, as a potential downturn in credit markets spurs investors to seek more information about the risks their money managers are taking, the company’s finance chief said.
Delta on Course to Meet Investment-Grade Metrics Next Year, CFO Says
Delta Air Lines is bolstering its efforts to regain the blue-chip rating it lost during the pandemic, the company’s finance chief said. “We’re one notch away,” Dan Janki said. “We think our metrics will certainly be aligned to that next year.”
US Companies Opting to Refinance 2024 Debt Face Profit Hit as Higher Rates Bite
Some of the largest US companies face billions of dollars in additional interest costs and hits to their profit if they refinance their 2024 maturities at current rates, with a third of them lacking the cash to repay upcoming debt.
MIT Sloan CFO Summit
Back in Newton, Mass. for this year’s MIT Sloan CFO Summit. I will be moderating a panel on leadership at noon, interviewing the CFOs of Delta Air Lines, Honeywell and GE about the impact of high interest rates, AI and geopolitics on their businesses. Looking forward!
Refinancing at Current Rates Doesn’t Make Sense, Costco CFO Says
Costco is considering repaying a $1 billion bond maturing in 2024 with cash and won’t be buying back any debt ahead of its maturity, CFO Richard Galanti said, adding that refinancing at current rates doesn’t make sense.
Marsh & McLennan CFO Says Investors Favor Long Blue-Chip Bonds
There’s still plenty of reason for companies to sell long-term debt as policymakers signal US interest rates could remain higher for longer, Marsh & McLennan CFO Mark McGivney tells me for Bloomberg News.
Risk premiums on US investment-grade corporate bonds have narrowed to the tightest level in nearly two years on expectations that the Federal Reserve has reached the peak of its monetary-tightening cycle, @josyanajoshua reports for @business.
The International Finance Corp., the private sector arm of the World Bank, garnered $6.7 billion of investors orders for its largest ever social bond, @estebanduarte4 reports for @business.
“Ghost newsrooms”—newspapers that have little to no on-the-ground presence in the localities whose name they bear—increasingly dot the American media landscape via @WSJ
A bankruptcy trustee in a court case with the power to upend the roughly $1.4 trillion leveraged loan market plans to ask the US Supreme Court to take up the case after losing an appeal in August, @ScottJourno reports for @business.
“The agreement, which will allow Americanas to present a new plan in court, is the result of “extensive” negotiations with creditors who hold more than 50% of the company’s debt combined, the retailer said.”
Castlelake, which has about $22 billion in assets under management, is exploring options including a sale, @GillianTan and @ArroyoNieto report for @business.
Clips
Another Fed pause: Companies navigate higher financing costs.
Companies struggle with rising interest expenses.
The Fed pauses — for how long?