BlackRock Sees Credit Market Risks Rising as Trade War Rages on
Risky corporate-debt markets have room to drop further to reflect damage from the ongoing trade war, according to BlackRock Inc.
'We're likely to see spreads widen from here as we see further deterioration in risk assets and in overall credit quality,' Mitch Garfin, the firm's co-head of leveraged finance, said on Bloomberg Intelligence's Credit Edge podcast.
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