Q4 Debt Origination Volume Nosedives To Four-Year Low, But Not All Banks Suffer

Global debt capital markets tanked from already weak conditions to end up with the lowest level of activity since late 2011 in Q4 2015. Companies around the globe raised less than $1.1 trillion through debt issuance over Q4 2015, according to Thomson Reuters' quarterly report for the industry. This figure is roughly 12% below the substantially depressed $1.24 trillion figure for Q3 2015, and 13% lower than the $1.26 trillion raised in Q4 2014. The decline over Q4 marks the sixth consecutive quar...