{"id":266536,"date":"2025-11-02T08:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266536\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:06:11","slug":"the-ranks-of-corporate-zombies-are-growing-credit-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/266536\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ranks of Corporate Zombies Are Growing: Credit Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">As Halloween monsters of all stripes flood neighborhoods in search of candy and parties this weekend, credit markets are seeing the resurgence of a different type of zombie. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody__3UcBa\" data-component=\"paragraph\">The tally of \u201czombie companies\u201d in the US that aren\u2019t earning enough to cover their interest expenses stands at the highest since early 2022, with almost 100 gaining the designation in October. The main reason: Companies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-05-19\/america-s-zombie-companies-are-multiplying-and-fueling-new-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">gorged on debt<\/a> at near-zero interest rates in the pandemic era have since been hurt by tariffs and higher funding costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As Halloween monsters of all stripes flood neighborhoods in search of candy and parties this weekend, credit markets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4592,28,30623,3055,8084,2800,28000,22523,9007,143040,143041,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-266536","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-bonds","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-capital-markets","11":"tag-debt","12":"tag-earnings","13":"tag-federal-reserve","14":"tag-fixed-income","15":"tag-halloween","16":"tag-interest-rates","17":"tag-jain-global-llc","18":"tag-lionsgate-studios-corp","19":"tag-markets"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}