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Moody's: Default rate for Asian high-yield non-financial corporates to stay low in 2017

Hong Kong, February 27, 2017-- Moody's Investors Service says that the default rate for Asian high-yield non-financial corporates will remain low through to the end of 2017.. "We estimate that the default rate for high-yield non-financial corporates in Asia will register a low 3.1% for the year ending 31 December 2017," says Clara Lau, a Moody's Group Credit Officer. Moody's explains that the low default rate estimate is partly due to the likely continuation of accommodative...
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