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Uneasy calm in Europe's corporate bond market
Do tight spreads reflect credit resilience, or is a dramatic repricing in the offing?
Keith Mullin
21 Oct 2026
Are bond investors factoring in deteriorating, stable or improving corporate credit conditions? Odd question perhaps in light of the volatility we’ve seen in public markets. Then again, the market anxiety in Europe has been driven by a blend of general macroeconomic pressures and domestic political and fiscal instability that’s been channelled into rising sovereign bond yields and not into a sustained widening of investment-grade corporate bond spreads. Yet.