Table 11.
Reaction of Other Credit Instruments.
| March 23, 2020 |
April 9, 2020 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pre | Post | Change | Pre | Post | Change | ||
| Corporate bonds | IG | 438 | 379 | −60 | 281 | 221 | −60 |
| HY | 1101 | 1116 | 16 | 915 | 790 | −125 | |
| CDX.IG | 3 year | 128 | 89 | −39 | 97 | 72 | −25 |
| 5 year | 152 | 108 | −44 | 105 | 84 | −21 | |
| 7 year | 163 | 119 | −44 | 118 | 102 | −16 | |
| 10 year | 172 | 132 | −41 | 124 | 111 | −14 | |
| CDX.HY | 3 year | 760 | 782 | 22 | 708 | 612 | −96 |
| 5 year | 866 | 723 | −143 | 625 | 555 | −70 | |
| 7 year | 849 | 849 | 0 | 737 | 648 | −89 | |
| 10 year | 847 | 842 | −5 | 703 | 614 | −88 | |
| Leveraged Loan Index | 1,826 | 1,795 | −31 | 2,089 | 2,138 | 49 | |
The table reports the changes in corporate credit spreads, CDS spreads, and leveraged loan index around the March 23 and April 9 corporate QE announcements. CDS spreads are for CDX.NA.IG and CDX.NA.HY indices and expressed in bps, while Leveraged Loan Index is an index value (i.e. generally, a higher value corresponds to lower credit spreads).