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Commercial paper is a type of short-term investment instrument issued by corporations in order to cover certain types of debt liabilities. Corporations issue commercial paper when they need to cover ...

Q: What type of companies raise money on the commercial paper market, and what do they do with it? A: The big and financially sound firms that typically issue commercial paper have plenty of revenue ...

Finance chiefs are issuing debt in the commercial paper market to save on interest costs and prepare their balance sheets for a likely rate cut from the Federal Reserve. The short-term debt appeals to ...

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Gavin Power, Global Fixed-Income Product Manager at Bloomberg L.P., was interviewed by Alison Fletcher, a Corporate Treasury Specialist at Bloomberg, on the reasons behind the rising interest in ...

Interest rates on unsecured commercial paper, an important source of short-term funding for banks, have reached the highest levels since the Great Recession, raising the possibility of a credit crunch ...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil company BP is now in danger of losing access to the commercial paper market, with one rating agency downgrading its short-term rating and another threatening to do so. Were a ...

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Commercial paper is a form of unsecured debt that allows companies to bypass a traditional lender, according to the SEC. Companies may issue commercial paper when they need to raise money. Commercial ...

Commercial paper is a promissory note in which the issuer promises to pay the buyer a specified amount at its maturity. Buyers purchase commercial paper at a lower rate than they are expected to ...