The Credit Market Lens: A Higher Bar For Earnings Season

Higher earnings forecasts across corporate credit raised the bar for Q2 reporting, while AI hyperscaler capital spending is poised to continue to drive the narrative. Read more here.

Since the start of the year, the market has become more optimistic on the earnings outlook for U.S. dollar (USD) investment grade (IG) corporate issuers, shrugging off the Iran conflict and consistently revising earnings forecasts higher (see Figure 1). The first wave of upgrades came after Summary - The bar has moved higher into earnings season. - AI hyperscalers are the swing factor.

- High yield is being re-rated higher too, but with little cushion. PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income. With our launch in 1971 in Newport Beach, California, PIMCO introduced investors to a total return approach to fixed income investing.

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